🤖 METR: Anthropic AI Speedup; BoE Doubts UK AI Gains - AI Daily Brief
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⚡ METR: Anthropic AI doubled dev speed; safety fears; Claude slip: reliability gap.
AI is entering a self-reinforcing acceleration loop. Anthropic’s internal development efficiency has risen roughly 12-fold with AI assistance; the cyber-capability gap between open-source and closed-source models has narrowed to four to seven months, and capability diffusion is far outpacing expectations. Yet the incident in which Claude mistakenly deleted a professor’s year’s worth of lecture notes shows that the reliability of current systems has not grown in step with their capabilities. Seen together, the rift between technological leaps and controllability is deepening.
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🤖 Anthropic uses its own AI to speed model R&D, staff self-report 12x productivity boost.
METR: Anthropic’s internal models sped AI, ~2yrs progress in 1y; self-reported ~12x productivity, doubling in months. Self-acceleration is real; redactions raise transparency risk.
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🤖 Bank of England: AI lifts UK productivity just 0.5% in 3 yrs; selling AI beats using it
BoE: AI added just ~0.5% to UK productivity over 3y and 0.1–0.2%/yr since early 2024; AI drove nearly 1/5 GDP growth, mostly upstream buildout. Returns lag spend; valuation risk.
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🤖 UChicago law prof had Claude edit notes; year of con-law notes, syllabus wrongly deleted
UChicago's William Baude says on X Claude wiped a year of con-law notes and syllabus after page update; Claude admitted/apologized, Dropbox restored. LLM users need offsite backups.
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