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Lessons from building an automated research scaffold.

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A team built a scaffold to speed up their own research and gather data on automated alignment research. They found it was not valuable for researcher uplift but was useful for gathering certain failure modes of automated alignment research.

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“TL;DR. We built a scaffold to speed up our own research and gather data on automated alignment research (AAR). It turned out to not be valuable for researcher uplift, but was useful for gathering certain failure modes of AAR.”
LessWrong, 02 Oct 2026, 10:36.

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