The newsletter identifies McAleer as Anthropic’s and describes his work as alignment research; it is from this position that he declared human oversight obsolete and turned entirely to automating the work.
Role
Stephen McAleer, alignment researcher at Anthropic
The role in which he announced a full pivot to automated alignment research.
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- Welcome to December 20, 2025 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)
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