Stephen McAleer works on alignment at Anthropic. In this corpus he appears once, pivoting entirely to automated alignment research on the day METR reported the Opus 4.5 autonomy horizon, arguing that human oversight is obsolete against the coming intelligence explosion; the position he stakes out is the one Anthropic’s later weak-to-strong supervision result puts into practice.
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Stephen McAleer
Anthropic alignment researcher who announced a full pivot to automated alignment research in December 2025.
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- Welcome to December 20, 2025 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)
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