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Anthropic scores the work on a six-level scale from Epoch AI that runs from AL0 (no AI involvement) to AL5 (fully autonomous, no human in the loop). At AL4 (AI leads), Claude completes most of a task end-to-end from a high-level prompt while a human supervises. More than 90% of the company’s AI R&D work is at AL3 (AI collaborates) or higher. None of it is at AL5. ...
One important best practice to note: Anthropic gives every agent its own identity, ties every record to that identity, and makes agents communicate in the open where monitors can read along. We advise our clients to do the same thing. Agents are synthetic employees, and they need badges. Coverage, review latency, and escalation rate are three numbers you should be able to report for every agent you run. ...
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