Summary: This post suggests that alignment training could benefit from coverage-driven verification. Anthropic recently reported that teaching Claude alignment rules (via pretraining-style next-token learning on alignment-related stories) is more effective than relying primarily on RL-style behavioral shaping. Some AV developers reached a related conclusion, but in addition tend to use a systematic, coverage-driven methodology for … More Coverage-driven alignment – What ‘Teaching Claude Why’ can borrow from AV verification