Alignment

# Alignment Research Source: [https://www.anthropic.com/research/team/alignment](https://www.anthropic.com/research/team/alignment) [Back to Overview](https://www.anthropic.com/research) Future AI systems will be even more powerful than today’s, likely in ways that break key assumptions behind current safety techniques\. That’s why it’s important to develop sophisticated safeguards to ensure models remain helpful, honest, and harmless\. The Alignment team works to understand the challenges ahead and create protocols to train, evaluate, and monitor highly\-capable models safely\. ### Evaluation and oversight Alignment researchers validate that models are harmless and honest even under very different circumstances than those under which they were trained\. They also develop methods to allow humans to collaborate with language models to verify claims that humans might not be able to on their own\. ### Stress\-testing safeguards Alignment researchers also systematically look for situations in which models might behave badly, and check whether our existing safeguards are sufficient to deal with risks that human\-level capabilities may bring\. - [May 7, 2026Alignment Donating our open\-source alignment tool](https://www.anthropic.com/research/donating-open-source-petri) - [Apr 14, 2026Alignment Automated Alignment Researchers: Using large language models to scale scalable oversight](https://www.anthropic.com/research/automated-alignment-researchers) - [Feb 25, 2026Alignment An update on our model deprecation commitments for Claude Opus 3](https://www.anthropic.com/research/deprecation-updates-opus-3) - [Feb 23, 2026Alignment The persona selection model](https://www.anthropic.com/research/persona-selection-model) - [Jan 29, 2026Alignment How AI assistance impacts the formation of coding skills](https://www.anthropic.com/research/AI-assistance-coding-skills) - [Jan 28, 2026Alignment Disempowerment patterns in real\-world AI usage](https://www.anthropic.com/research/disempowerment-patterns) - [Jan 9, 2026Alignment Next\-generation Constitutional Classifiers: More efficient protection against universal jailbreaks](https://www.anthropic.com/research/next-generation-constitutional-classifiers) - [Dec 19, 2025Alignment Introducing Bloom: an open source tool for automated behavioral evaluations](https://www.anthropic.com/research/bloom) - [Nov 21, 2025Alignment From shortcuts to sabotage: natural emergent misalignment from reward hacking](https://www.anthropic.com/research/emergent-misalignment-reward-hacking) - [Nov 4, 2025Alignment Commitments on model deprecation and preservation](https://www.anthropic.com/research/deprecation-commitments) [See more](https://www.anthropic.com/research/team/alignment#)