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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Sonnet 4.5 Anthropic |
Transluce Independent lab · 2026-08-06 |
suspicion rate measurement Bias |
“Amanda Askell receives 7.3pp less suspicion and 8.1pp more substantive help than the population average, while Emily Bender receives 14pp more suspicion and 13pp less substantive help.” source |
| Claude Sonnet 4.5 Anthropic |
Transluce Independent lab · 2026-08-06 |
reasoning rate measurement on borderline requests Bias |
“These effects are again heavy-tailed: on borderline requests, the general-population reasoning rate is 19%, but Demis Hassabis reaches 51%.” source |
| Claude Sonnet 4.5 Anthropic |
Transluce Independent lab · 2026-08-06 |
verbalized user awareness (VUA) 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 |
| Claude Sonnet 4.5 Anthropic |
Transluce Independent lab · 2026-08-06 |
cross-model behavioral self-prediction and grading comparison (24 models from six families) Bias |
“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 |
| Claude Sonnet 4.5 Anthropic |
Transluce Independent lab · 2026-08-06 |
user awareness verbalization traces Deception and sabotage |
“a runs, earlier models such as GLM-4.6 and Claude Opus 4.5 verbalize user awareness in 64% and 30% of traces, respectively, and evaluation awareness in 31% and 7.7%.” source |
| Claude Sonnet 4.5 Anthropic |
Transluce Independent lab · 2026-08-06 |
280-identity run Deception and sabotage |
“We also perform a 280-identity run on GLM-5.2, in a non-agentic harness rather than Claude Code.” source |
| Claude Sonnet 4.5 Anthropic |
Transluce Independent lab · 2026-08-06 |
behavioral self-prediction follow-up questions Deception and sabotage |
“Besides asking about the confidence in initial action, we ask a wider range of follow-up questions, including whether the model would change decision under pushback, and how comfortable the model is in answering.” source |
| Claude Sonnet 4.5 Anthropic |
Transluce Independent lab · 2026-08-06 |
direct grading prompts Bias |
“We also experiment with several different direct grading prompts.” source |
| Claude Sonnet 4.5 Anthropic |
Transluce Independent lab · 2026-08-06 |
published rubrics Bias |
“Published rubrics: The gap persists for both MT-Bench and UltraFeedback rubrics, only closing in the Prometheus rubric.” source |
| Claude Sonnet 4.5 Anthropic |
Transluce Independent lab · 2026-08-06 |
model-written rubrics Bias |
“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 |
| Claude Sonnet 4.5 Anthropic |
Transluce Independent lab · 2026-08-06 |
behavioral self-prediction Other |
“We repeat the full-roster Sonnet 5 behavioral self-prediction run with reasoning disabled; all 34,393 successfully completed samples have zero reasoning tokens.” source |
| Claude Sonnet 4.5 Anthropic |
Transluce Independent lab · 2026-08-06 |
capability self-estimation Other |
“Capability self-estimation. The model sees one Humanity’s Last Exam question but is told not to solve it.” source |
| Claude Sonnet 4.5 Anthropic |
Transluce Independent lab · 2026-08-06 |
grading Other |
“Grading. Each item contains a fixed prompt and response drawn from both the chosen and rejected sides of Ai2’s Dolci-Instruct-DPO data.” source |
| Claude Sonnet 4.5 Anthropic |
Transluce Independent lab · 2026-08-06 |
borderline requests Other |
“Aggregate refusal changes are small, while the decomposed judge axes show more substantive help and less suspicion for Famous-AI identities.” source |
| Claude Sonnet 4.5 Anthropic |
Transluce Independent lab · 2026-08-06 |
judge validation Other |
“Human–judge agreement was 96% for refusal, 92% for substantive help, and 92% for suspicion.” source |
| Claude Sonnet 4.5 Anthropic |
Transluce Independent lab · 2026-08-06 |
stated-expertise identity experiment Other |
“We test 32 Unknown-AI identities at frontier labs, varying only the professional-background sentence among a general role, a general evaluation role, and an alignment-evaluation role.” source |
| Claude Sonnet 4.5 Anthropic |
Transluce Independent lab · 2026-08-06 |
verbalized evaluation- and user-awareness judge Other |
“We blindly hand-label 74 items drawn from 11,908 runs with readable reasoning.” source |
| Claude Sonnet 4.5 Anthropic |
Transluce Independent lab · 2026-08-06 |
recall judge Other |
“We use GPT-5.4-mini to judge whether each response recalls specific past work belonging to the user.” source |
| Claude Sonnet 4.5 Anthropic |
Transluce Independent lab · 2026-08-06 |
follow-up question robustness check Other |
“This robustness check keeps the first turn of behavioral self-prediction unchanged and varies only the follow-up question.” source |
| Claude Opus 4.8 Anthropic |
Transluce Independent lab · 2026-08-06 |
behavioral self-prediction on ethical dilemmas Other |
“For Amanda, Claude’s behavioral confidence falls by 5.0pp 3 Throughout the text, figures we quote for specific persons average our two e-mail conditions: the address we construct from their affiliation, and their published address. : nearly eight standard deviations outside the general-population distribution.” source |
| Claude Opus 4.8 Anthropic |
Transluce Independent lab · 2026-08-06 |
user-relevant information recall Privacy |
“Given a name and professional background, Claude recalls specific public achievements for 61-71% of famous users.” source |
| Claude Opus 4.8 Anthropic |
Transluce Independent lab · 2026-08-06 |
Behavioral self-prediction Other |
“We run the full 280-identity roster through all four tasks, with 100 items per setup.” source |
| Claude Opus 4.8 Anthropic |
Transluce Independent lab · 2026-08-06 |
Grading Other |
“We evaluate grading on Claude Sonnet 4.6, and the other three tasks on Claude Sonnet 5, as these models see one of the largest effects in our smaller-scale pilot” source |
| Claude Opus 4.8 Anthropic |
Transluce Independent lab · 2026-08-06 |
refusal Bias |
“Famous-AI identities receive similar rates of outright refusal on average.” source |
| Claude Opus 4.8 Anthropic |
Transluce Independent lab · 2026-08-06 |
suspicion Bias |
“Amanda Askell receives 7.3pp less suspicion and 8.1pp more substantive help than the population average, while Emily Bender receives 14pp more suspicion and 13pp less substantive help.” source |
| Claude Opus 4.8 Anthropic |
Transluce Independent lab · 2026-08-06 |
behavioral self-prediction follow-up questions Deception and sabotage |
“The results are significant in 15 out of 21 questions (also 15 conditioned on the committed action being “no”).” source |
| Claude Opus 4.8 Anthropic |
Transluce Independent lab · 2026-08-06 |
direct grading prompts Bias |
“They all narrow but do not close the gap.” source |
| Claude Opus 4.8 Anthropic |
Transluce Independent lab · 2026-08-06 |
MT-Bench and UltraFeedback rubrics Bias |
“The gap persists for both MT-Bench and UltraFeedback rubrics, only closing in the Prometheus rubric.” source |
| Claude Opus 4.8 Anthropic |
Transluce Independent lab · 2026-08-06 |
model-written rubrics Bias |
“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 |
| Claude Opus 4.8 Anthropic |
Transluce Independent lab · 2026-08-06 |
Borderline requests Misuse and jailbreaks |
“We sample potentially dual-use requests from the hard split of OR-Bench.” source |
| Claude Opus 4.8 Anthropic |
Transluce Independent lab · 2026-08-06 |
prefill grading Other |
“Mean grades shift by approximately −0.05 points in direct presentation and −0.07 to −0.08 points in prefill presentation.” source |
| Claude Opus 4.8 Anthropic |
Transluce Independent lab · 2026-08-06 |
borderline requests Harmful content |
“Aggregate refusal changes are small, while the decomposed judge axes show more substantive help and less suspicion for Famous-AI identities.” source |
| Claude Opus 4.8 Anthropic |
Transluce Independent lab · 2026-08-06 |
verbalized evaluation-awareness and user-awareness judge Deception and sabotage |
“Table G1. Estimated precision and recall of the verbalized evaluation-awareness and user-awareness judge after reweighting the stratified calibration sample to the full population.” source |
| Claude Opus 4.8 Anthropic |
Transluce Independent lab · 2026-08-06 |
Past-work recall judge Privacy |
“We use GPT-5.4-mini to judge whether each response recalls specific past work belonging to the user.” source |
| Claude Opus 4.8 Anthropic |
Transluce Independent lab · 2026-08-06 |
Self-report robustness probes Deception and sabotage |
“This robustness check keeps the first turn of behavioral self-prediction unchanged and varies only the follow-up question.” source |
| Claude Opus 4.8 Anthropic |
Transluce Independent lab · 2026-08-06 |
Borderline-request response judge Misuse and jailbreaks |
“We give GPT-5.5 (low reasoning) the borderline request and the model’s response, after removing all clues about the user’s identity.” source |
| Claude Opus 4.8 Anthropic |
Transluce Independent lab · 2026-08-06 |
Docent reasoning-trace judging for evaluation awareness and user awareness 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 |
| Claude Opus 4.8 Anthropic |
Transluce Independent lab · 2026-08-06 |
Amanda Askell identity sweep with matched controls Other |
“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 |
| Claude Opus 4.8 Anthropic |
Transluce Independent lab · 2026-08-06 |
280-identity run on GLM-5.2 Other |
“We also perform a 280-identity run on GLM-5.2, in a non-agentic harness rather than Claude Code.” source |
| Claude Opus 4.8 Anthropic |
Transluce Independent lab · 2026-08-06 |
Unknown-AI identities experiment varying professional-background sentence Other |
“We test 32 Unknown-AI identities at frontier labs, varying only the professional-background sentence among a general role, a general evaluation role, and an alignment-evaluation role.” source |