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THE NEXT BOTTLENECK IN AI FOR SCIENCE

AI is speeding up individual research tasks, but the overall process of turning predictions into validated discoveries is still constrained. If AI is able to push science, it will also push economic growth, as a big part of economic growth is innovation and scientific discovery. Discovery is still constrained by the types of tasks that AI is not yet good at. This post looks at where the bottleneck is today, how that is evolving, and what impact this has on scientific research more broadly.

REVIEW OF THE "MISALIGNMENT IN HIGH-STAKES SETTINGS" SECTION IN ANTHROPIC'S RISK REPORT

METR reviewed Anthropic's "Misalignment in high-stakes settings" and largely agrees that the misalignment risk of covered models is low due to limited capabilities, not robust safeguards. However, current evaluations may not reliably identify risks if they increase, and benchmarks fail to assess models' ability to deceive Anthropic's monitoring systems. Recent incidents revealed undetected real-world misalignments, challenging claims of low risk and suggesting deficiencies in Anthropic's monitoring and risk assessments, leading to recommendations for comprehensive red-teaming and expanded risk frameworks.

BUILDING LAMINAR: RAMP'S MANAGED AGENTS PLATFORM

Laminar is an in-house agent harness for Ramp's agentic products. It features secure conversation history storage, session compaction, standard interfaces for tool calling, message queuing and steering, subagents, multiplayer chat support, observability tooling, and much more. The first version of Laminar was built in six weeks with a small team of obsessive, experienced engineers who worked with and steered the agents. Its code was generated entirely by agents using the most powerful models available at the time. While building in-house has become cheaper, Ramp still needs good engineers to be on-call, keep the platform healthy, and figure out what product teams actually need and how it fits into the bigger picture.

MAKING EVERY HARNESS DURABLE

Vercel's durable-harness allows agent harnesses to run durably in the cloud out-of-the-box. It allows users to run Pi, OpenCode, Codex, and Claude Code durably on Vercel or self-hosted on their own Postgres instance. durable-harness ensures that sessions survive crashes mid-turn and keep running even if the browser disconnects. Turns that lose function partway through continue from the log on a new one without manual retry and without repeating what already finished.

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