The newsletter identifies him only as “Anthropic’s Sholto Douglas”; his X profile describes him as working on scaling RL at Anthropic, formerly DeepMind. The role matters to the corpus because the forecast comes from inside a frontier lab, four days after another Anthropic researcher pivoted fully to automated alignment.
Role
Sholto Douglas, AI researcher at Anthropic
The position from which he predicted, on the No Priors podcast, that continual learning would be solved in 2026.
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- Welcome to December 24, 2025 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)
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