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A LessWrong post argues that empirical safety and alignment research published by frontier labs such as Anthropic and OpenAI is often closed-source and lacking methodological detail, and should be replicated, scrutinized, and open-sourced.
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Source
“When frontier labs like Anthropic and OpenAI publish safety or alignment research, it is often entirely empirical, closed-source, and sparse on methodological details.”
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