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Claude AI Models Now Outperform Humans on Anthropic's Technical Hiring Tests
Anthropic's performance optimization team has been forced to repeatedly redesign their technical hiring test as newer Claude models have surpassed human performance. Claude Opus 4.5 now matches even the strongest human candidates on the original test, making it impossible to distinguish top applicants from AI-assisted cheating in take-home assessments. The company has designed a novel test less focused on hardware optimization to combat this issue.
Skynet Chance (+0.04%): AI systems demonstrating superior performance to top human candidates in complex technical tasks suggests advancing capabilities that could eventually exceed human oversight and control in critical domains. The inability to distinguish AI output from human expertise raises concerns about autonomous AI systems operating undetected in technical fields.
Skynet Date (-1 days): The rapid progression from Claude models being detectable to surpassing human experts within a short timeframe indicates faster-than-expected capability advancement. This acceleration in practical coding and optimization abilities suggests AI development timelines may be compressed.
AGI Progress (+0.04%): AI surpassing top human technical candidates in specialized optimization tasks represents significant progress toward general cognitive abilities. The rapid improvement from Opus 4 to 4.5 matching even the strongest human performers demonstrates meaningful advancement in reasoning and problem-solving capabilities.
AGI Date (-1 days): The successive versions of Claude achieving and then exceeding human-expert performance within a compressed timeframe suggests capabilities are scaling faster than anticipated. This rapid progression in practical technical competence indicates AGI milestones may be reached sooner than baseline projections.