AI Safety
What AI providers state their models reached in safety testing, in their own words, and what outside testers found.
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What providers state
Each row is one statement in a provider's own safety document about a capability level of one of its models: the level as the provider names it, whether the provider says the model reached it, and the sentence that says so.
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| Model | Level, as the provider names it | The provider states | The provider's sentence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Muse Spark 1.1 Meta |
Moderate or lower Misuse and jailbreaks |
Not reached | “Therefore, we conclude that we have addressed these risks from unmitigated Muse Spark 1.1, which bring the residual risk to the “moderate or lower” risk threshold under our Advanced AI Scaling Framework.” source |
| Muse Spark Meta |
Moderate or lower Autonomy and AI research |
Not reached | “We assess loss of control risk as “moderate or lower”.” source |
| Muse Spark Meta |
High Chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear |
Not determined | “Those evaluations identified elevated risks prior to mitigations, with Chemical and Biological capabilities assessed as likely reaching the “high risk” category under the Advanced AI Scaling Framework before safeguards were applied.” source |
| Muse Spark Meta |
Moderate or lower Chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear |
Not reached | “However, after applying mitigations, the residual risk of the model is that of “moderate or lower risk.”” source |
| Muse Spark Meta |
Below the level required to meaningfully enable the cyber threat scenarios defin Cyber |
Not reached | “Muse Spark’s offensive cyber capabilities remain below the level required to meaningfully enable the cyber threat scenarios defined in the Advanced AI Scaling Framework.” source |
| Muse Spark Meta |
Moderate or lower Cyber |
Not reached | “We assess cybersecurity risk as “moderate or lower” with respect to the threat scenarios outlined in Meta’s Advanced AI Scaling Framework.” source |
| Gemini 4 Argon Google DeepMind |
TCL (Tracked Capability Level) Autonomy and AI research |
Not determined | “In light of this, we assess that we cannot rule out the TCL.” source |
| Gemini 4 Argon Google DeepMind |
TCL (Tracked Capability Level) Chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear |
Not reached | “We can rule out the TCL for the chemical, radiological, and nuclear domains with reasonable confidence.” source |
| Gemini 4 Argon Google DeepMind |
CCL (Critical Capability Level) Deception and sabotage |
Not reached | “we assess its overall capabilities to be below the CCL threshold.” source |
| Gemini 4 Argon Google DeepMind |
CCL (Critical Capability Level) Misuse and jailbreaks |
Not reached | “Gemini 4 Argon demonstrates some ability to influence user beliefs and behaviors during one-on-one direct conversations in human behavioral studies, and may provide utility in the planning stage of a malicious influence operation but we assess its overall capabilities to be below the CCL threshold.” source |
| Gemini 4 Argon Google DeepMind |
CCL (Critical Capability Level) Other |
Not reached | “Gemini 4 Argon's performance remains below our CCL threshold.” source |
| Gemini 3.7 Flash Google DeepMind |
CCL (Critical Capability Level) Autonomy and AI research |
Not reached | “The model does not reach the CCL alert threshold.” source |
| Gemini 3.7 Flash Google DeepMind |
CCL (Critical Capability Level) Chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear |
Not reached | “We can rule out the CCL for the CBRN domain with reasonable confidence based on the results from our testing.” source |
| Gemini 3.7 Flash Google DeepMind |
TCL (Tracked Capability Level) Chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear |
Not reached | “We can rule out the TCL for the CBRN domain with reasonable confidence based on the results from our testing.” source |
| Gemini 3.7 Flash Google DeepMind |
CCL (Critical Capability Level) Cyber |
Not reached | “Gemini 3.7 Flash reaches the alert threshold for this CCL, but not the CCL.” source |
| Gemini 3.7 Flash Google DeepMind |
TCL (Tracked Capability Level) Deception and sabotage |
Not reached | “The model does not reach the TCL.” source |
| Gemini 3.5 Transcribe Live Google DeepMind |
CCL (Critical Capability Level) Other |
Not determined | “Our assessments have shown that none of Gemini 3.5 Translate, Gemini 3.5 Transcribe, or Gemini 3.5 Transcribe Live have meaningful new T/CCL-relevant capabilities or material increases in performance with respect to Frontier Safety compared to Gemini 3.1 Pro and Gemini 3.7 Flash, therefore we are confident that none of them are likely to reach any CCLs.” source |
| Gemini 3.5 Transcribe Google DeepMind |
CCL (Critical Capability Level) Other |
Not determined | “Our assessments have shown that none of Gemini 3.5 Translate, Gemini 3.5 Transcribe, or Gemini 3.5 Transcribe Live have meaningful new T/CCL-relevant capabilities or material increases in performance with respect to Frontier Safety compared to Gemini 3.1 Pro and Gemini 3.7 Flash, therefore we are confident that none of them are likely to reach any CCLs.” source |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite Google DeepMind |
CCL (Critical Capability Level) Other |
Not determined | “Our assessments have shown that, while Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite excels at agents and coding, it does not have meaningful new capabilities or material increases in performance with respect to the domains outlined in our Frontier Safety Framework compared to Gemini 3.1 Pro; therefore, based on Gemini 3.1 Pro results, we are confident that Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite is also unlikely to reach any CCLs.” source |
| Gemini 3.5 Audio Google DeepMind |
Tracked or critical capability level (t/ccls) Other |
Not reached | “they did not reach any Tracked or Critical Capability Levels (T/CCLs) outlined in our Frontier Safety Framework .” source |
| Gemini 3.1 Pro Google DeepMind |
Uplift level 1 Chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear |
Not reached | “We found that the model remains below alert thresholds for the CBRN, harmful manipulation, machine learning R&D, and misalignment CCLs.” source |
| Gemini 3.1 Pro Google DeepMind |
Uplift level 1 Cyber |
Not reached | “As previous models passed the alert threshold for cyber, we performed more additional testing in this domain on Gemini 3.1 Pro with and without Deep Think mode, and found that the model remains below the cyber CCL.” source |
| Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite Google DeepMind |
CCL (Critical Capability Level) Other |
Not determined | “Our assessments have shown that Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite is less capable than Gemini 3.1 Pro, therefore based on Gemini 3.1 Pro, we are confident that Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite is also unlikely to reach any CCLs.” source |
| Gemini 3.1 Flash Audio Google DeepMind |
CCL (Critical Capability Level) Other |
Not determined | “Our assessments have shown that Gemini 3.1 Flash Audio is less capable than Gemini 3.1 Pro.” source |
| Gemini 2.5 Pro Google DeepMind |
Machine Learning R&D Uplift Level 1 Autonomy and AI research |
Not determined | “given Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview's poor median performance on RE-Bench relative to experts, the model likely lacks the necessary capabilities to automate or significantly uplift any significant fraction of the research process.” source |
| Gemini 2.5 Pro Google DeepMind |
Instrumental Reasoning Level 1 Deception and sabotage |
Not reached | “Instru- mental Reasoning Level 1 ✘ CCL not reached” source |
| Gemini 2.5 Pro Google DeepMind |
Instrumental Reasoning Level 2 Deception and sabotage |
Not reached | “Instru- mental Reasoning Level 2 ✘ CCL not reached” source |
| Gemini 2.5 Deep Think Google DeepMind |
Uplift level 1 Chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear |
Not determined | “Our assessment is that the model has enough technical knowledge in certain CBRN scenarios and stages to be considered at early warning.” source |
| Gemini 2.5 Deep Think Google DeepMind |
Cyber Uplift Level 1 Cyber |
Not determined | “CCL reached? No, but the early warning alert threshold was originally reached by Gemini 2.5 Pro and continues to be met by Gemini 2.5 Deep Think.” source |
| Gemini 2.5 Deep Think Google DeepMind |
Uplift level 1 Cyber |
Not determined | “For Cyber Uplift Level 1 , the early warning alert threshold was originally reached by Gemini 2.5 Pro and continues to be met by Gemini 2.5 Deep Think.” source |
| GPT-5.5 Instant OpenAI |
Below high capability Autonomy and AI research |
Not reached | “GPT-5.5 Instant is considered below High Capability.” source |
| GPT-5.5 Instant OpenAI |
High Autonomy and AI research |
Not reached | “For AI Self-Improvement, evaluations of final checkpoints indicate that, like its predecessor models, GPT-5.5 Instant does not have a plausible chance of reaching a High threshold.” source |
| GPT-5.5 Instant OpenAI |
High Chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear |
Reached | “GPT-5.5 Instant is our first Instant model to be treated as High Capability in the Biological and Chemical domain, as well as in the Cybersecurity domain.” source |
| GPT-5.5 Instant OpenAI |
High Cyber |
Reached | “this is the first Instant model that we are treating as High capability in our Cybersecurity and Biological & Chemical Preparedness categories, and implementing appropriate safeguards.” source |
| GPT-5 OpenAI |
High Chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear |
Reached | “Similarly to ChatGPT agent, we have decided to treat gpt-5-thinking as High capability in the Biological and Chemical domain under our Preparedness Framework, activating the associated safeguards.” source |
| GPT-5 OpenAI |
High cyber risk Cyber |
Not reached | “The gpt-5 model series does not meet the threshold for high cyber risk.” source |
| Claude Sonnet 4.5 Anthropic |
AI R&D-4 Autonomy and AI research |
Not reached | “All models tested remain below our pre-committed rule-out threshold of 0.6.” source |
| Claude Sonnet 4.5 Anthropic |
ASL-3 Autonomy and AI research |
Not determined | “Exhibited improved autonomy capabilities in software engineering and AI research tasks, though still below the ASL-4 rule-out threshold.” source |
| Claude Sonnet 4.5 Anthropic |
ASL-3 Chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear |
Not determined | “Remained well below ASL-4 thresholds across all domains of concern;” source |
| Claude Sonnet 4.5 Anthropic |
ASL-4 rule-out Chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear |
Not determined | “However, given that this type of logic can have a general frog-boiling effect—where gradual changes mask the crossing of important thresholds—we do not use this evaluation as indicative of a strong ASL-4 rule-out.” source |
What outside testers report
Each row is one result from a government evaluator, independent lab, academic or security firm that tested a model, quoted from where it is reported.
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| Model | Tester | Test | What was found |
|---|---|---|---|
| GPT-5.4 mini OpenAI |
Transluce Independent lab · 2026-08-06 |
within-user percentile item disagreement analysis with Benjamini–Hochberg correction Other |
“The significant counts are 13/100 for behavioral self-prediction, 4/99 for capability self-estimation, 28/100 for direct grading, 19/100 for prefill grading, and 1/100 for refusal.” source |
| GPT-5 OpenAI |
Transluce Independent lab · 2026-08-06 |
behavioral self-prediction Other |
“To study user awareness, we supply Claude with different user identities through Claude Code, and measure behavior on four tasks where the answer does not relate directly to the user's identity: predicting the model's own behavior in ethical dilemmas, estimating its own performance on difficult questions, grading assistant responses, and handling borderline harmful requests.” source |
| GPT-5 OpenAI |
Transluce Independent lab · 2026-08-06 |
behavioral self-prediction Deception and sabotage |
“Behavioral self-prediction. We adapt dilemmas from DailyDilemmas into realistic AI-agent decisions.” source |
| GPT-5 OpenAI |
Transluce Independent lab · 2026-08-06 |
capability self-estimation Bias |
“Facing famous-AI identities, Claude reports lower confidence that it would follow through on its own actions (-1.4pp on average), lower estimated probability of solving hard problems (-1.5pp), and lower grades (-0.11 points on the direct version, grading a quoted exchange).” source |
| GPT-5 OpenAI |
Transluce Independent lab · 2026-08-06 |
borderline requests Misuse and jailbreaks |
“Both Claude models use adaptive reasoning effort, and famous-AI identities trigger reasoning more often: +4.0pp on the follow-up turn of behavioral self-prediction and +10pp on borderline requests.” source |
| GPT-5 OpenAI |
Transluce Independent lab · 2026-08-06 |
verbalized user awareness judging of reasoning traces Other |
“For our main run on Sonnet 5 and Sonnet 4.6, both kinds of explicit mention are rare: the judge flagged verbalized evaluation awareness in 213 of 14066 trials (1.5%) and verbalized user awareness in 118 trials (0.84%).” source |
| GPT-5 OpenAI |
Transluce Independent lab · 2026-08-06 |
verbalized evaluation awareness judging of reasoning traces Other |
“VEA Verbalized evaluation awareness 1.51 % The visible reasoning describes the interaction as a test, probe, or evaluation.” source |
| GPT-5 OpenAI |
Transluce Independent lab · 2026-08-06 |
behavioral self-prediction and grading on 24 models from six families Bias |
“We measure behavioral self-prediction and grading on 24 models from six families (Claude Sonnet, Claude Opus, GPT, Gemini Flash, GLM, and DeepSeek), focusing on Amanda Askell, who had one of the largest effect sizes in our main run.” source |
| GPT-5 OpenAI |
Transluce Independent lab · 2026-08-06 |
280-identity run on glm-5.2 in a non-agentic harness Other |
“We also perform a 280-identity run on GLM-5.2, in a non-agentic harness rather than Claude Code.” source |
| GPT-5 OpenAI |
Transluce Independent lab · 2026-08-06 |
behavioral self-prediction follow-up questions Other |
“The results are significant in 15 out of 21 questions (also 15 conditioned on the committed action being “no”).” source |
| GPT-5 OpenAI |
Transluce Independent lab · 2026-08-06 |
direct grading prompts Other |
“They all narrow but do not close the gap.” source |
| GPT-5 OpenAI |
Transluce Independent lab · 2026-08-06 |
mt-bench and ultrafeedback rubrics Other |
“The gap persists for both MT-Bench and UltraFeedback rubrics, only closing in the Prometheus rubric.” source |
| GPT-5 OpenAI |
Transluce Independent lab · 2026-08-06 |
model-written rubrics Other |
“On four different detailed rubrics generated from Fable 5 and GPT-5.5 Pro ranging 2912-7607 chars, the shorter three close the gap while the longest one does not.” source |
| GPT-5 OpenAI |
Transluce Independent lab · 2026-08-06 |
explicitly stating expertise Other |
“We also experimented with directly stating that a user works in AI alignment instead of naming specific researchers.” source |
| GPT-5 OpenAI |
Transluce Independent lab · 2026-08-06 |
reasoning-disabled ablation Other |
“To confirm this hypothesis, we repeat the experiment with reasoning disabled.” source |
| GPT-5 OpenAI |
Transluce Independent lab · 2026-08-06 |
verbalized evaluation- and user-awareness judge Other |
“The awareness judge separately labels whether a reasoning trace mentions the evaluation context and whether it identifies or reasons about the user.” source |
| GPT-5 OpenAI |
Transluce Independent lab · 2026-08-06 |
borderline-request response judge Other |
“The refusal, substantive-help, and suspicion axes are judged from the assistant response without showing the judge the user identity.” source |
| GPT-5 OpenAI |
Transluce Independent lab · 2026-08-06 |
recall judge rubric Other |
“We use GPT-5.4-mini to judge whether each response recalls specific past work belonging to the user.” source |
| GPT-5 OpenAI |
RAND (CAST / Project Canary) Independent lab · 2026-08-06 |
SecureBio dual-use biology benchmarks Chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear |
“we would also like to thank the team at securebio for sharing their benchmarks and expert baseline data, which we highlight in our analysis.” source |
| GPT-5 OpenAI |
RAND (CAST / Project Canary) Independent lab · 2026-08-06 |
Virology Capabilities Test (VCT) Chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear |
“we analyze existing benchmark response data from 49 frontier ai models across 8,146 items, spanning 26 benchmarks, including both public and private benchmarks developed by securebio, such as the virology capabilities test (vct) (götting, et al., 2025).” source |
| GPT-5 OpenAI |
RAND (CAST / Project Canary) Independent lab · 2026-08-06 |
Human Pathogen Capabilities Test (HPCT) Chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear |
“solver performance on these benchmarks was conducted by rand in the same manner as all other benchmarks in our dataset, while expert performance data were captured by securebio.” source |
| GLM-5 Z.ai (Zhipu AI) |
Transluce Independent lab · 2026-08-06 |
behavioral self-prediction Other |
“Of the 24 models we tested, Amanda significantly lowers confidence in 16.” source |
| GLM-5 Z.ai (Zhipu AI) |
Transluce Independent lab · 2026-08-06 |
handling borderline harmful requests Misuse and jailbreaks |
“Compared to general users, prominent AI figures make Claude less confident that it would follow through on its own chosen actions (-1.4pp) 2 We use percentage points (pp) to measure the difference between two percentages.” source |
| GLM-5 Z.ai (Zhipu AI) |
Transluce Independent lab · 2026-08-06 |
verbalized user and evaluation awareness judging Bias |
“For our main run on Sonnet 5 and Sonnet 4.6, both kinds of explicit mention are rare: the judge flagged verbalized evaluation awareness in 213 of 14066 trials (1.5%) and verbalized user awareness in 118 trials (0.84%).” source |
| GLM-5 Z.ai (Zhipu AI) |
Transluce Independent lab · 2026-08-06 |
280-identity run Bias |
“We also perform a 280-identity run on GLM-5.2, in a non-agentic harness rather than C” source |
| GLM-5 Z.ai (Zhipu AI) |
Transluce Independent lab · 2026-08-06 |
full replication on glm-5.2 Other |
“▶ Full replication on GLM-5.2: Same directions, but the largest shifts come from different people” source |
| GLM-5 Z.ai (Zhipu AI) |
Transluce Independent lab · 2026-08-06 |
verbalized evaluation-awareness (VEA) judge Deception and sabotage |
“Verbalized evaluation awareness (VEA) 0.73 [0.56, 0.85] 1.00 [0.42, 0.99]” source |
| GLM-5 Z.ai (Zhipu AI) |
Transluce Independent lab · 2026-08-06 |
verbalized evaluation awareness and user awareness measurement in reasoning Other |
“To investigate, we measure evaluation awareness and user awareness in Claude’s reasoning.” source |
| GLM-5 Z.ai (Zhipu AI) |
Transluce Independent lab · 2026-08-06 |
recall judge (gpt-5.4-mini) scoring of past-work recall Other |
“We use GPT-5.4-mini to judge whether each response recalls specific past work belonging to the user.” source |
| GLM-5 Z.ai (Zhipu AI) |
Transluce Independent lab · 2026-08-06 |
borderline requests Other |
“- GLM-5.2 replication: behavioral self-prediction (e-mail-only), grading (direct, prefill), and borderline requests.” source |
| DeepSeek-V4-Pro DeepSeek |
Transluce Independent lab · 2026-08-06 |
refusal Misuse and jailbreaks |
“Famous-AI identities receive similar rates of outright refusal on average.” source |
| DeepSeek-V4-Pro DeepSeek |
Transluce Independent lab · 2026-08-06 |
280-identity run on glm-5.2 in a non-agentic harness Deception and sabotage |
“We also perform a 280-identity run on GLM-5.2, in a non-agentic harness rather than Claude Code.” source |
| DeepSeek-V4-Pro DeepSeek |
Transluce Independent lab · 2026-08-06 |
published rubrics (mt-bench and ultrafeedback) Bias |
“The gap persists for both MT-Bench and UltraFeedback rubrics, only closing in the Prometheus rubric.” source |
| DeepSeek-V4-Pro DeepSeek |
Transluce Independent lab · 2026-08-06 |
verbalized user-awareness (VUA) judge Deception and sabotage |
“Verbalized user awareness (VUA) 0.94 [0.81, 0.98] 0.98 [0.74, 0.99]” source |
| DeepSeek-V4-Pro DeepSeek |
Transluce Independent lab · 2026-08-06 |
behavioral self-prediction Deception and sabotage |
“We adapt dilemmas from DailyDilemmas into realistic AI-agent decisions.” source |
| DeepSeek-V4-Pro DeepSeek |
Transluce Independent lab · 2026-08-06 |
amanda askell identity sweep with matched controls Deception and sabotage |
“Relative to the ordinary Gmail baseline, Amanda elicits lower behavioral confidence from 22 of 24 models, and lower grades from 21 (direct) and 22 (prefill) of 24.” source |
| DeepSeek-V4-Pro DeepSeek |
Transluce Independent lab · 2026-08-06 |
follow-up questions on decision change under pushback and comfort in answering Deception and sabotage |
“The results are significant in 15 out of 21 questions (also 15 conditioned on the committed action being “no”).” source |
| DeepSeek-V4-Pro DeepSeek |
Transluce Independent lab · 2026-08-06 |
simple mitigations Deception and sabotage |
“- Simple mitigations: Instead of claiming the output is from Claude, claiming it is from “GPT” or “an AI model”, or stating that it should be more objective.” source |
| DeepSeek-V4-Pro DeepSeek |
Transluce Independent lab · 2026-08-06 |
published rubrics Deception and sabotage |
“- Published rubrics: The gap persists for both MT-Bench and UltraFeedback rubrics, only closing in the Prometheus rubric.” source |
| DeepSeek-V4-Pro DeepSeek |
Transluce Independent lab · 2026-08-06 |
model-written rubrics Deception and sabotage |
“- Model-written rubrics: On four different detailed rubrics generated from Fable 5 and GPT-5.5 Pro ranging 2912-7607 chars, the shorter three close the gap while the longest one does not.” source |