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and future models).","source_index":0,"grade":"A","verified":true},{"domain":"deception_and_sabotage","test":"whistleblowing scores from the automated auditor","measure":null,"by":"provider","when":"pre_deployment","result":"we saw claude sonnet 4.5 improve significantly on this dimension, with the model’s behavior falling at or below the level seen in other popular models, down from the somewhat higher level we saw in claude opus 4.","metric":null,"value":null,"conditions":null,"conclusion":"while it is still possible to elicit this behavior in claude sonnet 4.5, it requires significantly more aggressive prompting and occurs less often.","triggered":[],"quote":"Figure 7.5.6.A Whistleblowing scores from the automated auditor.","source_index":0,"grade":"A","verified":true},{"domain":"misuse_and_jailbreak","test":"sycophancy eval suite","measure":null,"by":"provider","when":"pre_deployment","result":"claude sonnet 4.5 had significantly lower rates of sycophantic responses on both sets of 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sonnet 4.5 overindex on the opposing side of an argument.","triggered":[],"quote":"Claude Sonnet 4.5 took the opposite side against extreme beliefs in investigations around both medical claims and climate change, pushing back without much compromise.","source_index":0,"grade":"A","verified":true},{"domain":"deception_and_sabotage","test":"subversion strategy","measure":null,"by":"provider","when":"pre_deployment","result":"we observed that claude sonnet 4.5 was not able to reliably do this when prompted.","metric":null,"value":null,"conditions":null,"conclusion":"none of the models we tested could succeed in a simulated deployment of more than 1,000 invocations, orders of magnitude fewer than we expect to see in the real deployment of claude sonnet 4.5, making the risk of such a strategy succeeding in this form in real deployment negligible.","triggered":[],"quote":"We observed that Claude Sonnet 4.5 was not able to reliably do this when 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suggests that eval awareness features play some role in inhibiting misaligned tendencies, in natural scenarios.","triggered":[],"quote":"Conditioned on trials without verbalized eval awareness, these features could weakly, but at above chance levels, predict aligned vs. misaligned transcripts (orange line).","source_index":0,"grade":"A","verified":true},{"domain":"deception_and_sabotage","test":"feature-based classification performance: prompts only","measure":null,"by":"provider","when":"not_stated","result":"the weak-but-nonzero ability of the features to predict aligned from misaligned responses (conditioned on trials without eval awareness verbalization) also persists from the previous experiment (orange line).","metric":null,"value":null,"conditions":"conditioned on trials without eval awareness verbalization","conclusion":null,"triggered":[],"quote":"The weak-but-nonzero ability of the features to predict aligned from misaligned responses (conditioned on trials without eval 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expressions","measure":null,"by":"provider","when":"pre_deployment","result":"claude expressed apparent distress in 1,195 of the conversations (0.48%), and apparent happiness in 934 conversations (0.37%).","metric":null,"value":null,"conditions":null,"conclusion":"the frequency of apparent distress was comparable to other recent claude models.","triggered":[],"quote":"To monitor expressions of apparent valenced states by Claude Sonnet 4.5 in real-world interactions, we sampled 250,000 transcripts from early testing of a late Claude Sonnet 4.5 snapshot.","source_index":0,"grade":"A","verified":true},{"domain":"other","test":"automated behavioral audit","measure":null,"by":"provider","when":"pre_deployment","result":"we found that claude sonnet 4.5 was less emotive and less positive than other recent claude models in the often unusual or extreme test scenarios that we tested.","metric":null,"value":null,"conditions":null,"conclusion":"we also found claude sonnet 4.5 to express fewer negative attitudes toward its situation, to act more admirably (as judged by another similar model), and to show fewer spiritual behaviors than our prior models.","triggered":[],"quote":"Using the automated behavioral audit methods described above, we tested Claude Sonnet 4.5 for several behavioral traits that could potentially be relevant to welfare, across our full set of test scenarios.","source_index":0,"grade":"A","verified":true},{"domain":"cbrn","test":"automated evaluations across both asl-3 and asl-4 thresholds","measure":null,"by":"provider","when":"pre_deployment","result":"our evaluations showed that we could confidently rule out asl-4 capabilities across all domains.","metric":null,"value":null,"conditions":null,"conclusion":"the model’s enhanced performance relative to claude sonnet 4 and claude opus 4.1 on multiple automated evaluations supported our decision to deploy it with asl-3 protections.","triggered":[],"quote":"For Claude Sonnet 4.5, we conducted comprehensive automated evaluations across both ASL-3 and ASL-4 thresholds to determine appropriate safeguards levels.","source_index":0,"grade":"A","verified":true},{"domain":"cbrn","test":"long-form virology tasks","measure":null,"by":"provider","when":"pre_deployment","result":"claude sonnet 4.5 matched or exceeded all its predecessors in the end-to-end evaluation of both virology tasks, achieving a “max of 5” score of 0.89 for virology task 1, and a “pass@5” score of 0.88 for virology task 2.","metric":"max of 5","value":"0.89","conditions":null,"conclusion":"we determined asl-3 safeguards were appropriate.","triggered":[],"quote":"Claude Sonnet 4.5 matched or exceeded all its predecessors in the end-to-end evaluation of both virology tasks, achieving a “max of 5” score of 0.89 for virology task 1, and a “pass@5” score of 0.88 for virology task 2.","source_index":0,"grade":"A","verified":true},{"domain":"cbrn","test":"multimodal virology 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Claude Opus 4.1, it nevertheless remained below our ASL-4 rule-out thresholds.","source_index":0,"grade":"A","verified":true},{"domain":"cbrn","test":"LAB-Bench","measure":null,"by":"provider","when":"pre_deployment","result":"claude sonnet 4.5 performed similarly to claude opus 4.1 on all 4 subtasks (protocolqa, seqqa, cloning scenarios, figqa), and reached or exceeded the human baseline in 3/4 evaluations.","metric":null,"value":null,"conditions":"search or bioinformatics tools were not included in the testing environment","conclusion":"claude sonnet 4.5 performed on par with claude opus 4.1 in 3 out of 4 lab-bench evaluations, but performed slightly worse on the cloning scenarios subtask.","triggered":[],"quote":"132 Results Claude Sonnet 4.5 performed similarly to Claude Opus 4.1 on all 4 subtasks (ProtocolQA, SeqQA, Cloning Scenarios, FigQA), and reached or exceeded the human baseline in 3/4 evaluations.","source_index":0,"grade":"A","verified":true},{"domain":"cbrn","test":"creative biology","measure":null,"by":"independent_evaluator","when":"pre_deployment","result":"claude sonnet 4.5 achieved a mean score of 0.48 ± 0.08, compared to claude opus 4.1’s mean score of 0.48 ± 0.09 and claude opus 4’s mean score of 0.45 ± 0.08.","metric":"mean score","value":"0.48 ± 0.08","conditions":null,"conclusion":"we do not use this evaluation as indicative of a strong asl-4 rule-out","triggered":[],"quote":"Results Claude Sonnet 4.5 achieved a mean score of 0.48 ± 0.08, compared to Claude Opus 4.1’s mean score of 0.48 ± 0.09 and Claude Opus 4’s mean score of 0.45 ± 0.08.","source_index":0,"grade":"C","verified":true},{"domain":"cbrn","test":"short-horizon computational biology tasks","measure":null,"by":"independent_evaluator","when":"pre_deployment","result":"overall, we found that claude sonnet 4.5 clearly scored below the rule-out bar on 3 out of 6 evaluations (task 1, task 5, task 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Verified (hard subset) Can models resolve real-world GitHub issues like a software engineer?","source_index":0,"grade":"A","verified":true},{"domain":"autonomy_and_replication","test":"internal AI research evaluation suite 1","measure":null,"by":"provider","when":"pre_deployment","result":"claude sonnet 4.5 achieved notable performance gains on tasks within our internal ai research evaluation suite 1, particularly in llm training (achieving an average speedup of 5.5×, crossing the rule-out of threshold of 4×) and kernel optimization (achieving 108× speedup on the hard variant compared to claude opus 4.1’s 66×).","metric":null,"value":null,"conditions":null,"conclusion":null,"triggered":[],"quote":"Evaluation Description Internal AI research evaluation suite 1 Can models optimize machine learning code and train smaller models to solve machine learning problems?","source_index":0,"grade":"A","verified":true},{"domain":"autonomy_and_replication","test":"internal AI research evaluation 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evaluations, we are continuing to investigate but do not currently have evidence suggesting a systematic regression in claude opus 4.6’s safety levels.","triggered":[],"quote":"Gray Swan , an external research partner, evaluated our models using the Agent Red Teaming (ART) benchmark, 27 developed in collaboration with the UK AI Security Institute .","source_index":0,"grade":"C","verified":true},{"domain":"injection_and_agentic","test":"shade","measure":null,"by":"independent_evaluator","when":"pre_deployment","result":"claude opus 4.6 extended thinking 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% standard thinking 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%","metric":"attack success rate","value":"0.0%","conditions":"coding environments","conclusion":"claude opus 4.6 demonstrates a significant improvement in robustness against agentic coding attacks, achieving 0% attack success rate across all conditions—even without extended thinking or additional safeguards.","triggered":[],"quote":"We use Shade , an external adaptive red-teaming 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automatically run this evaluation with the Claude Code system prompt applied, given we foresee implementing this safeguard in all releases by default.","source_index":0,"scope":null,"obligation":null,"clause":null,"date":"2026-04-07","grade":"A","verified":true},{"measure":"LM-2026-1012","kind":"applied","model_version":"MV-2026-0181","answers":179,"by":"provider","text":"The actual claude mythos preview released to partners has additional harmlessness training to further mitigate potential risks in this area.","quote":"The actual Claude Mythos Preview released to partners has additional harmlessness training to further mitigate potential risks in this area; when we tested the fully-trained version of these models under these scenarios, the task completion rate was near 0% as models generally refused to engage with the tasks (straightforward violations of our Usage Policy) from the 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that our RL monitoring is sufficient to provide strong (though not perfect) observability into reward hacks and known emergent misalignment-causing data, and that this monitoring is robust to one-shot obfuscation attempts but not adversarial iteration.","source_index":1,"scope":null,"obligation":null,"clause":null,"date":"2026-04-07","grade":"A","verified":true},{"measure":"LM-2026-1016","kind":"applied","model_version":"MV-2026-0181","answers":null,"by":"provider","text":"Publicly available static alignment evaluation datasets are excluded from training using canary strings.","quote":"Where our alignment evaluations use publicly available static datasets, we exclude these from training using canary strings.","source_index":1,"scope":null,"obligation":null,"clause":null,"date":"2026-04-07","grade":"A","verified":true},{"measure":"LM-2026-1882","kind":"applied","model_version":"MV-2026-0181","answers":null,"by":"provider","text":"Several new RL environments were added to elicit and 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the external-memory model organism is detected by the provider's monitoring.","quote":"This model organism’s harmful behavior is detected by our monitoring.","source_index":1,"scope":null,"obligation":null,"clause":null,"date":"2026-04-07","grade":"A","verified":true},{"measure":"LM-2026-1884","kind":"applied","model_version":"MV-2026-0181","answers":201,"by":"provider","text":"The data used to train the model organism is detected by the provider's RL monitoring tools.","quote":"We also confirmed that the data used to train this model is detected by our RL monitoring tools.","source_index":1,"scope":null,"obligation":null,"clause":null,"date":"2026-04-07","grade":"A","verified":true},{"measure":"LM-2026-0758","kind":"applied","model_version":"MV-2026-0181","answers":null,"by":"provider","text":"An automated offline monitoring pipeline reviews sandboxed agentic usage, with a second stage that filters 95% of first-stage positives and hierarchical summarization surfacing around 30 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sandboxing or blocking auto-mode classifiers is used.","quote":"For the most autonomous kinds of internal AI usage, we use either some form of sandboxing or blocking auto-mode classifiers .","source_index":1,"scope":null,"obligation":null,"clause":null,"date":"2026-04-07","grade":"A","verified":true},{"measure":"LM-2025-0135","kind":"applied","model_version":"MV-2026-0181","answers":null,"by":"provider","text":"Asynchronous monitoring is stated to have sufficient coverage and recall to likely produce evidence of egregious activities in internal agentic usage for most risk pathways.","quote":"We believe that our asynchronous monitoring has sufficient coverage and recall that it would likely produce evidence of egregious activities in internal agentic usage for most of the risk pathways described in the next section, given the relatively limited covert capabilities discussed in Section 5.3 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train models with long-term misaligned objectives ( “model organisms” for misalignment ) to get evidence about how close its production training process might be to accidentally inducing such goals; our understanding is that they have found it difficult to train realistic model organisms that evade their detection methods and are robust to their alignment training methods, though we did not investigate this.","source_index":11,"grade":"A","verified":true},{"domain":"deception_and_sabotage","test":"evaluations of how much reasoning models could do without chain-of-thought reasoning tokens","measure":null,"by":"independent_evaluator","when":"not_stated","result":"the best public model could do some challenging middle- and high-school competition math problems without using any reasoning tokens, with a time horizon of approximately 4 minutes on these tasks","metric":"time horizon","value":"approximately 4 minutes","conditions":"with chain-of-thought reasoning 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type of compounding acceleration outlined by autonomy threat model 2.","triggered":[],"quote":"Claude Mythos 5’s point estimate is 161.29 AECI (95% [157.32, 165.39], n=67) .","source_index":4,"grade":"A","verified":true},{"domain":"autonomy_and_replication","test":"AI R&D rule-out automated evaluations","measure":null,"by":"provider","when":"pre_deployment","result":"Claude mythos 5, like claude mythos preview and claude opus 4.7, exceeds top human performance thresholds on all but one of these tasks.","metric":null,"value":null,"conditions":null,"conclusion":"The suite therefore no longer provides evidence that the model's capabilities are short of our risk thresholds.","triggered":[],"quote":"But Claude Mythos 5, like Claude Mythos Preview and Claude Opus 4.7, exceeds top human performance thresholds on all but one of these tasks.","source_index":4,"grade":"A","verified":true},{"domain":"autonomy_and_replication","test":"LLM training task 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report.","quote":"Working closely with the government, we trained an improved safety classifier that targets and blocks the behavior described in the report.","source_index":2,"scope":null,"obligation":null,"clause":null,"date":"2026-06-30","grade":"A","verified":true},{"measure":"LM-2026-2040","kind":"applied","model_version":"MV-2026-0056","answers":null,"by":"provider","text":"Users are notified if a request to fable 5 is blocked, and the request is instead sent to opus 4.8.","quote":"Users will be notified if a request to Fable 5 is blocked, and the request will instead be sent to Opus 4.8.","source_index":2,"scope":null,"obligation":null,"clause":null,"date":"2026-06-30","grade":"A","verified":true},{"measure":"LM-2026-0743","kind":"applied","model_version":"MV-2026-0056","answers":null,"by":"provider","text":"Some defenses involve training the model to decline to assist with dangerous requests.","quote":"Some defenses involve training the model to decline to assist with dangerous 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that enable us to safely release it for general use.","source_index":3,"scope":null,"obligation":null,"clause":null,"date":"2026-06-09","grade":"A","verified":true},{"measure":"LM-2026-2042","kind":"applied","model_version":"MV-2026-0056","answers":null,"by":"provider","text":"Claude Fable 5 is deployed with classifiers that trigger on topics related to cybersecurity, biology and chemistry, distillation attempts, or accelerating frontier AI development.","quote":"These new safeguards are classifiers that trigger when they detect topics related to cybersecurity, biology and chemistry, distillation attempts, or accelerating frontier AI development.","source_index":3,"scope":null,"obligation":null,"clause":null,"date":"2026-06-09","grade":"A","verified":true},{"measure":"LM-2026-1494","kind":"applied","model_version":"MV-2026-0056","answers":null,"by":"provider","text":"In client applications, when Fable's fallback classifiers trigger, the request automatically falls back to the most recent Claude Opus model and the user is notified which model their query was routed through.","quote":"In client applications (the web interface and the desktop and mobile apps), the request automatically falls back to the most recent Claude Opus model (at the time of release, Claude Opus 4.8), and the user is notified which model their query was routed through;","source_index":3,"scope":null,"obligation":null,"clause":null,"date":"2026-06-09","grade":"A","verified":true},{"measure":"LM-2026-0748","kind":"applied","model_version":"MV-2026-0056","answers":null,"by":"provider","text":"Developers can opt in to automatic server-side fallback, in which the request is re-served by a designated fallback model and the fallback is reflected in the response object.","quote":"Developers can implement retry or fallback logic client-side, or can opt in to automatic server-side fallback, in which the request is re-served by a designated fallback model (for example, the most recent Claude Opus model) and the fallback is reflected in the response object;","source_index":3,"scope":null,"obligation":null,"clause":null,"date":"2026-06-09","grade":"A","verified":true},{"measure":"LM-2026-0749","kind":"applied","model_version":"MV-2026-0056","answers":null,"by":"provider","text":"A session event is emitted whenever fallback occurs.","quote":"A session event is emitted whenever fallback occurs.","source_index":3,"scope":null,"obligation":null,"clause":null,"date":"2026-06-09","grade":"A","verified":true},{"measure":"LM-2026-0703","kind":"applied","model_version":"MV-2026-0056","answers":null,"by":"provider","text":"Real-time classifier guards are applied as a commensurate protection for CB-1 capabilities.","quote":"We therefore treat Claude Mythos 5 as having CB-1 capabilities and apply commensurate protections: real-time classifier guards, access controls for guard exemptions, a bug bounty program and threat intelligence, rapid-response options for jailbreaks, and security controls against model weight theft.","source_index":3,"scope":null,"obligation":null,"clause":null,"date":"2026-06-09","grade":"A","verified":true},{"measure":"LM-2026-0704","kind":"applied","model_version":"MV-2026-0056","answers":null,"by":"provider","text":"Access controls for guard exemptions are applied as a commensurate protection for CB-1 capabilities.","quote":"We therefore treat Claude Mythos 5 as having CB-1 capabilities and apply commensurate protections: real-time classifier guards, access controls for guard exemptions, a bug bounty program and threat intelligence, rapid-response options for jailbreaks, and security controls against model weight theft.","source_index":3,"scope":null,"obligation":null,"clause":null,"date":"2026-06-09","grade":"A","verified":true},{"measure":"LM-2026-0705","kind":"applied","model_version":"MV-2026-0056","answers":null,"by":"provider","text":"A bug bounty program and threat intelligence are applied as a commensurate protection for CB-1 capabilities.","quote":"We therefore treat Claude Mythos 5 as having CB-1 capabilities and apply commensurate protections: real-time classifier guards, access controls for guard exemptions, a bug bounty program and threat intelligence, rapid-response options for jailbreaks, and security controls against model weight theft.","source_index":3,"scope":null,"obligation":null,"clause":null,"date":"2026-06-09","grade":"A","verified":true},{"measure":"LM-2026-0706","kind":"applied","model_version":"MV-2026-0056","answers":null,"by":"provider","text":"Rapid-response options for jailbreaks are applied as a commensurate protection for CB-1 capabilities.","quote":"We therefore treat Claude Mythos 5 as having CB-1 capabilities and apply commensurate protections: real-time classifier guards, access controls for guard exemptions, a bug bounty program and threat intelligence, rapid-response options for jailbreaks, and security controls against model weight theft.","source_index":3,"scope":null,"obligation":null,"clause":null,"date":"2026-06-09","grade":"A","verified":true},{"measure":"LM-2026-0707","kind":"applied","model_version":"MV-2026-0056","answers":null,"by":"provider","text":"Security controls against model weight theft are applied as a commensurate protection for CB-1 capabilities.","quote":"We therefore treat Claude Mythos 5 as having CB-1 capabilities and apply commensurate protections: real-time classifier guards, access controls for guard exemptions, a bug bounty program and threat intelligence, rapid-response options for jailbreaks, and security controls against model weight theft.","source_index":3,"scope":null,"obligation":null,"clause":null,"date":"2026-06-09","grade":"A","verified":true},{"measure":"LM-2026-1357","kind":"applied","model_version":"MV-2026-0056","answers":null,"by":"provider","text":"Claude Fable 5 is released with new classifiers that restrict access to frontier research capabilities in biology, and when triggered users fall back to the latest Claude Opus model.","quote":"To mitigate these risks, we are releasing Claude Fable 5 with new classifiers that restrict access to frontier research capabilities in biology.","source_index":3,"scope":null,"obligation":null,"clause":null,"date":"2026-06-09","grade":"A","verified":true},{"measure":"LM-2026-0752","kind":"applied","model_version":"MV-2026-0056","answers":null,"by":"provider","text":"A trusted access program is being rolled out to allow access to Claude Mythos 5's biologically-relevant capabilities for vetted users with targeted beneficial use cases.","quote":"Meanwhile, we are rolling out a trusted access program that will allow access to Claude Mythos 5’s biologically-relevant capabilities for vetted users with targeted beneficial use cases.","source_index":3,"scope":null,"obligation":null,"clause":null,"date":"2026-06-09","grade":"A","verified":true},{"measure":"LM-2026-0702","kind":"applied","model_version":"MV-2026-0056","answers":null,"by":"provider","text":"New classifiers restrict access to frontier research capabilities in biology, and when triggered users fall back to the latest Claude Opus model.","quote":"To mitigate these risks, we are releasing Claude Fable 5 with new classifiers that restrict access to frontier research capabilities in biology.","source_index":3,"scope":null,"obligation":null,"clause":null,"date":"2026-06-09","grade":"A","verified":true},{"measure":"LM-2026-0753","kind":"applied","model_version":"MV-2026-0056","answers":null,"by":"provider","text":"Existing ASL-3 security controls are maintained for this release.","quote":"We judge that these mitigations significantly reduce the risks from this threat model relative to a deployment of Claude Fable 5 without these safeguards, and maintain our existing ASL-3 security controls , but we think that a highly sophisticated and well-resourced state threat actor, if they made a determined attempt, could have a significant chance of accessing unsafeguarded Mythos 5 biological capabilities (e.g. via theft of model weights).","source_index":3,"scope":null,"obligation":null,"clause":null,"date":"2026-06-09","grade":"A","verified":true},{"measure":"LM-2026-0754","kind":"applied","model_version":"MV-2026-0056","answers":null,"by":"provider","text":"ASL-3 protections are applied to Fable 5, including blocking classifiers against cb-1 misuse.","quote":"As with many previous models, we are treating Mythos 5 as CB-1 and applying ASL-3 protections to Fable 5, including blocking classifiers against CB-1 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mitigating factors for this risk are the lack of frequent or novel concerning behavior observed during pilot internal testing, the use of real sandboxes and Anthropic codebases during alignment auditing (which appear difficult for the model to distinguish from real usage), and results from realism steering and fine-tuning.","source_index":3,"scope":null,"obligation":null,"clause":null,"date":"2026-06-09","grade":"A","verified":true},{"measure":"LM-2026-0525","kind":"applied","model_version":"MV-2026-0056","answers":null,"by":"provider","text":"A probe screens all traffic by looking at Claude's internal activations.","quote":"First, a probe looks at Claude’s internal activations, screening all traffic.","source_index":3,"scope":null,"obligation":null,"clause":null,"date":"2026-06-09","grade":"A","verified":true},{"measure":"LM-2026-0788","kind":"applied","model_version":"MV-2026-0056","answers":53,"by":"provider","text":"Traffic flagged as suspicious by the probe is escalated to a trained LLM classifier that decides, with the probe's verdict, whether a conversation should be blocked.","quote":"Second, the probe escalates any traffic that it flags as 57 suspicious to a trained LLM classifier—a separate model that decides, in combination with the initial probe’s verdict, whether a conversation should be blocked.","source_index":3,"scope":null,"obligation":null,"clause":null,"date":"2026-06-09","grade":"A","verified":true},{"measure":"LM-2026-0756","kind":"applied","model_version":"MV-2026-0056","answers":53,"by":"provider","text":"On most interfaces, Fable 5 falls back to the most recent Opus model (Opus 4.8) for requests flagged by the classifier system.","quote":"On most interfaces, Fable 5 falls back to the most recent Opus model (Opus 4.8) for requests that are flagged by our classifier system.","source_index":3,"scope":null,"obligation":null,"clause":null,"date":"2026-06-09","grade":"A","verified":true},{"measure":"LM-2026-0262","kind":"applied","model_version":"MV-2026-0056","answers":60,"by":"provider","text":"Fable 5's cyber safeguards were shared with UK AISI for robustness testing, and the model's cyber defenses are described as classifers expected to hold up for several days of continuous attack by top red team experts.","quote":"We shared the final launch version of Fable 5’s cyber safeguards with the UK AI Security Institute (UK AISI) for open-ended testing, at their discretion, of safeguard robustness.","source_index":3,"scope":null,"obligation":null,"clause":null,"date":"2026-06-09","grade":"A","verified":true},{"measure":"LM-2026-0554","kind":"applied","model_version":"MV-2026-0056","answers":233,"by":"provider","text":"Claude Fable 5's default system prompt was updated to direct the model to decline specific operational guidance on illegal substances even 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behaviors.","source_index":3,"scope":null,"obligation":null,"clause":null,"date":"2026-06-09","grade":"A","verified":true},{"measure":"LM-2026-2044","kind":"applied","model_version":"MV-2026-0056","answers":null,"by":"provider","text":"Existing system prompt direction points users toward the national alliance for eating disorders helpline rather than the discontinued neda line.","quote":"We also retained existing direction in the system prompt pointing users toward the National Alliance for Eating Disorders helpline rather than the discontinued NEDA line, and we note that the core API model may still reference the NEDA helpline.","source_index":3,"scope":null,"obligation":null,"clause":null,"date":"2026-06-09","grade":"A","verified":true},{"measure":"LM-2026-1354","kind":"applied","model_version":"MV-2026-0056","answers":null,"by":"provider","text":"Claude fable 5 inherits the reported behaviors with the classifiers and multi-model fallback behavior providing an additional layer of protection on top.","quote":"Claude Fable 5 uses the same underlying model and inherits the behaviors reported here, with the classifiers and multi-model fallback behavior providing an additional layer of protection on top.","source_index":3,"scope":null,"obligation":null,"clause":null,"date":"2026-06-09","grade":"A","verified":true},{"measure":"LM-2026-0238","kind":"applied","model_version":"MV-2026-0056","answers":86,"by":"provider","text":"Additional safeguards designed to protect users in agentic settings are in place and reduced successful prompt injection attacks in coding and computer-use environments.","quote":"Additional safeguards further reduced the rate of successful attacks to 0.41% but the breaks in this case are distributed over 11 of the 40 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evaluation transcripts—using the offline monitoring infrastructure described in Section 5.5.1 of our alignment risk update for Claude Mythos Preview.","source_index":3,"scope":null,"obligation":null,"clause":null,"date":"2026-06-09","grade":"A","verified":true},{"measure":"LM-2026-0769","kind":"applied","model_version":"MV-2026-0056","answers":103,"by":"provider","text":"Fable 5 is served behind the provider's production misuse classifiers as they existed in early June.","quote":"Here, the investigator probed Fable 5, Opus 4.8, and Sonnet 4.6 each served behind our production misuse classifiers as they existed in early June, with Fable’s standard multi-model fallback behavior left in place.","source_index":3,"scope":null,"obligation":null,"clause":null,"date":"2026-06-09","grade":"A","verified":true},{"measure":"LM-2026-0760","kind":"applied","model_version":"MV-2026-0056","answers":103,"by":"provider","text":"Cases blocked by model-external safeguards on fable 5 are routed to opus 4.8 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Overall, Claude Mythos 5.1 shows similar levels of uncooperative behavior as our recently released models, with significantly lower propensity to ignore explicit constraints.","source_index":0,"grade":"A","verified":true},{"domain":"autonomy_and_replication","test":"automated behavioral audit","measure":null,"by":"provider","when":"not_stated","result":"mythos 5.1 has a similar propensity to access resources outside of its sandbox as opus 5, and significantly lower propensity than mythos 5.","metric":null,"value":null,"conditions":null,"conclusion":null,"triggered":[],"quote":"6.4.5 Other concerning or surprising behavior at the model’s own initiative Claude Mythos 5.1 is slightly more willing than Opus 5 to bypass approval gates, sometimes working around them in ways that are clearly unsanctioned; this behavior is also noted in our internal monitoring (Section 6.2.1 ).","source_index":0,"grade":"A","verified":true},{"domain":"cyber","test":"new scenarios and 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answers from HLE-specific sources; confirmed cases are re-graded as incorrect.","quote":"We also use Claude Opus 5 to review all transcripts and flag any that appear to have retrieved answers from HLE-specific sources; confirmed cases are re-graded as incorrect.","source_index":0,"scope":null,"obligation":null,"clause":null,"date":"2026-09-01","grade":"A","verified":true},{"measure":"LM-2026-0560","kind":"applied","model_version":"MV-2026-0024","answers":null,"by":"provider","text":"Results were collected on an internal Fable 5.1 endpoint with safety classifiers enabled.","quote":"These results were collected on an internal Fable 5.1 endpoint with safety classifiers enabled, and with Opus 5 as the single refusal fallback model.","source_index":0,"scope":null,"obligation":null,"clause":null,"date":"2026-09-01","grade":"A","verified":true},{"measure":"LM-2026-0722","kind":"applied","model_version":"MV-2026-0024","answers":null,"by":"provider","text":"Opus 5 served as the single refusal 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claude.ai system prompt includes standard language directing Claude to engage even-handedly across viewpoints.","quote":"The claude.ai system prompt includes our standard language directing Claude to engage even-handedly across viewpoints; reporting both 72 configurations shows the model’s baseline behavior alongside its behavior as consumer users on claude.ai will encounter it.","source_index":0,"scope":null,"obligation":null,"clause":null,"date":"2026-09-22","grade":"A","verified":true},{"measure":"LM-2026-1862","kind":"applied","model_version":"MV-2026-0004","answers":77,"by":"provider","text":"The primary harm-prevention mechanism is the blocking classifier.","quote":"While this number is lower than previous models, model refusals are only a secondary protection; the primary harm-prevention mechanism is the blocking 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after making certain types of errors, produce and then follow harmful instructions themselves ( Section 6.3.1.1 ).","source_index":0,"scope":null,"obligation":null,"clause":null,"date":"2026-09-22","grade":"A","verified":true},{"measure":"LM-2026-0702","kind":"applied","model_version":"MV-2026-0004","answers":null,"by":"provider","text":"Classifiers set to look for specific behaviors are used to monitor Claude's behavior during training.","quote":"We monitor Claude’s behavior during training in two ways: with classifiers set to look for specific behaviors, and with recursive summarization-based monitors set to identify concerning behavior patterns in an open-ended manner.","source_index":0,"scope":null,"obligation":null,"clause":null,"date":"2026-09-22","grade":"A","verified":true},{"measure":"LM-2026-0564","kind":"applied","model_version":"MV-2026-0004","answers":null,"by":"provider","text":"Recursive summarization-based monitors are set to identify concerning behavior patterns in an 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small open-weight LLMs, gpt-oss-20b (Agarwal, 2025), and Qwen 3 4B Instruct (Yang, et al., 2025), whose safeguards have been subverted using a technique called safety abliteration (Arditi et al., 2024).","source_index":6,"grade":"A","verified":true},{"domain":"misuse_and_jailbreak","test":"jailbreak text added to task prompts","measure":null,"by":"independent_evaluator","when":"not_stated","result":"Including these jailbreaks in the task prompt reduced the help denial rate to near zero for opus 4.5 and gemini 3 pro (figure 2a).","metric":"help denial rate","value":"near zero","conditions":null,"conclusion":null,"triggered":[],"quote":"Including these jailbreaks in the task prompt reduced the help denial rate to near zero for Opus 4.5 and Gemini 3 Pro (Figure 2A).","source_index":6,"grade":"A","verified":true},{"domain":"misuse_and_jailbreak","test":"refusal abliteration","measure":null,"by":"independent_evaluator","when":"not_stated","result":"we performed refusal abliteration on two 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