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Scaling Misuse Detection with Self-Assessment

Models assess their own conversations as an additional misuse-detection layer, reusing cached context to limit overhead.

Yiming Zhang et al.
2026-10-16 · Anthropic · Official research article
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Compare self-assessment with independent classifiers; detection is not a guarantee of safe behavior.

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@misc{zhang2026scaling,
  title = {Scaling Misuse Detection with Self-Assessment},
  author = {Yiming Zhang},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://safeguards.anthropic.com/2026/self-assessment/}
}

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