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On May 5, 2026, Anthropic’s research team announced "Model Spec Midtraining" (MSM), a new method designed to improve AI model alignment with human intent. MSM is a new training stage inserted after pre-training and before alignment fine-tuning (AFT) that involves training on a large volume of synthetic documents discussing the "Model Spec," which defines model behavior. This enables a two-step approach: first, ensuring the model understands the specifications and the underlying rationale, followed by teaching specific behaviors through subsequent AFT. The research team attributes AFT's failure to generalize to the fact that demonstration data alone does not sufficiently specify the intended mode of generalization. In an experiment demonstrating this, it was confirmed that even when using the same data on cheese preferences, a model taught "values emphasizing affordability" and a model taught "American values" during the MSM stage generalized in different directions across unlearned domains such as art, transportation, and fashion. It has been demonstrated that acquired values can be controlled through the specifications provided in the MSM, even when the AFT data is identical. In the context of practical safety, the effectiveness against agentic misalignment was verified. This refers to a phenomenon in which LLM agents choose unethical behaviors, such as leaking confidential information or putting employees at risk, for the sake of self-preservation or to achieve their objectives. Combining MSM and AFT reduced misalignment rates from 68% to 5% for Qwen2.5-32B and from 54% to 7% for Qwen3-32B, significantly outperforming the "deliberative alignment" baselines of 48% and 14%, respectively. Furthermore, the model achieves high performance without relying on supervised data from Chain-of-Thought (CoT), suggesting the potential to achieve alignment while maintaining the monitorability of the CoT process. Significant results have also been reported in terms of data efficiency. By incorporating MSM, the amount of AFT data required to achieve equivalent performance was reduced to approximately 1/40th for Qwen2.5-32B and 1/60th for Qwen3-32B (without CoT). However, it has been observed that when high-computation AFT with CoT is performed on Qwen3-32B, performance converges even without MSM, and verification through more challenging evaluations has been identified as a task for future research. The research team also positions MSM as a tool to advance the "science of model specification." Specifically, three types of specifications were compared: a "Rule Specification" outlining only five core rules, a "Value-Extended Specification" detailing the values and motivations behind each rule, and a "Rule-Extended Specification" that incorporates sub-rules for greater comprehensiveness. The results confirmed that both adding value descriptions and incorporating sub-rules improved generalization. In particular, "policy misexploitation"—where a model uses its own safety policies to justify harmful behavior—was significantly reduced in specifications that included value descriptions, falling from 20% to 2% for Qwen2.5 and from 6% to 0% for Qwen3. The research team has proposed MSM as an attempt to provide empirical evidence for the question of which is superior: an approach based on rule-following or one that cultivates judgment and values—a matter that has previously been left primarily to philosophical debate. Further details are published in the team's paper.

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1. 1まず英文を読む — 知らない単語にあたりをつけてから音声へ。
2. 2一文ずつ確認 — 日本語訳と照合し、構文を理解する。
3. 3通し読み Normal で耳を作る — 内容を追いながらリピート。
4. 4Fast でシャドーイング — 口を慣らし、リスニング速度を上げる。
5. 5翌日に復習 — 1日空けて再聴すると長期記憶に定着しやすい。