Anthropic publishes measures of AI research automation and oversight

Anthropic proposes tracking AI research automation, agent oversight and compute allocation to inform frontier pacing. Its internal measurements are company-reported, with independent verification proposed. Anthropic 

Automation and oversight

For August 2026, Anthropic estimates Claude led 26% of measured R&D work under human supervision; no measured category was fully autonomous. Claude helped construct and rate the index. Anthropic warns that model evaluators could share the errors of systems they assess. Anthropic 

Anthropic reports roughly 30,000 concurrent research and engineering agents on its most-used internal platform. Its oversight measures cover that platform only. Monitoring coverage and escalation rates do not establish how reliably harmful behavior is detected. Anthropic 

Safety compute

During July 13–20, about 6% of AI R&D compute went to safety. This one-week snapshot cannot establish a trend, and compute expenditure is an imperfect proxy for safety effort. Anthropic