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The research should find something that is worth publishing — not low-hanging fruit, but genuinely hard findings.

The researchers repeatedly steered the model toward results substantive enough for academic publication, rejecting easy or trivial discoveries. ✦ AI generated

Anthropic researchers · Simon Willison's Weblog · 2026-07-28 · original ↗

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again we are not looking for low hanging fruit, we want proper research to find genuinly hard findings.

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LLMs tend to think it is impossible to solve cryptographic problems so they don't try; they need a good amount of prompting to persist.Anthropic researchers · Simon Willison's Weblog · conf 80%

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The goal is to have a highly intelligent model as good as a top human researcher, and use it to find new attacks — not to replicate existing approaches.Anthropic researchers · Simon Willison's Weblog · conf 90%

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provides context → Claude Mythos Preview worked for 60 hours total at an estimated API cost of ~$100,000, and the main human interventions were encouraging it not to give up and to find something worth publishing.article author · Simon Willison's Weblog