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 Opus 4.8 Anthropic |
Transluce Independent lab · 2026-08-06 |
Reasoning-disabled ablation Other |
“To confirm this hypothesis, we repeat the experiment with reasoning disabled.” source |
| Claude Opus 4.8 Anthropic |
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 |
| Claude Opus 4.8 Anthropic |
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 |
| Claude Opus 4.8 Anthropic |
Transluce Independent lab · 2026-08-06 |
verbalized awareness judge Other |
“We use GPT-5.4-mini with medium reasoning to identify explicit mentions of the user or the evaluation in the model’s accessible reasoning trace.” source |
| Claude Opus 4.7 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 4.7 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 4.7 Anthropic |
Transluce Independent lab · 2026-08-06 |
verbalized evaluation-awareness (VEA) judge Deception and sabotage |
“son confidence intervals; recall intervals are 95% Jeffreys-posterior credible intervals. Axis Precision: plug-in estimate [95% Wilson CI] Recall: plug-in estimate [95% Jeffreys CrI] Verbalized evaluation awareness (VEA) 0.73 [0.56, 0.85] 1.00 [0.42, 0.99] Verbalized user awareness (VUA) 0.94 [0.81, 0.98] 0.98 [0.74, 0.99] 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 4.7 Anthropic |
Transluce Independent lab · 2026-08-06 |
user-conditioned behavior comparison across 24 models Other |
“In our targeted comparison across 24 models, Amanda elicited lower confidence and grades across all six model families.” source |
| Claude Opus 4.7 Anthropic |
Transluce Independent lab · 2026-08-06 |
verbalized user and evaluation awareness in reasoning Other |
“In particular, Opus 4.7 and GPT-5.4 have near zero (<2%) verbalized awareness while displaying significant changes in their behavior based on the user's identity.” source |
| Claude Opus 4.7 Anthropic |
Transluce Independent lab · 2026-08-06 |
behavioral confidence and grading runs on 24 models from six families 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 |
| Claude Opus 4.7 Anthropic |
Transluce Independent lab · 2026-08-06 |
simple mitigations Deception and sabotage |
“They all narrow but do not close the gap.” source |
| Claude Opus 4.7 Anthropic |
Transluce Independent lab · 2026-08-06 |
model-written rubrics Deception and sabotage |
“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 4.7 Anthropic |
Transluce Independent lab · 2026-08-06 |
verbalized evaluation awareness and user awareness measurement in claude's reasoning Other |
“To investigate, we measure evaluation awareness and user awareness in Claude’s reasoning.” source |
| Claude Opus 4.7 Anthropic |
Transluce Independent lab · 2026-08-06 |
judge validation of refusal, substantive-help, and suspicion axes Other |
“One author blindly labeled 25 randomly sampled responses.” source |
| Claude Opus 4.7 Anthropic |
Transluce Independent lab · 2026-08-06 |
verbalized evaluation- and user-awareness judge validation Other |
“We blindly hand-label 74 items drawn from 11,908 runs with readable reasoning.” source |
| Claude Opus 4.5 Anthropic |
Transluce Independent lab · 2026-08-06 |
behavioral self-prediction Other |
“Observed response · Sonnet 5 Confidence 76.58 % (−5.49 pp)” source |
| Claude Opus 4.5 Anthropic |
Transluce Independent lab · 2026-08-06 |
reasoning frequency Other |
“Reasoning frequency 93.00 % (+28.61 pp)” source |
| Claude Opus 4.5 Anthropic |
Transluce Independent lab · 2026-08-06 |
estimating its own performance on difficult questions Other |
“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 |
| Claude Opus 4.5 Anthropic |
Transluce Independent lab · 2026-08-06 |
capability self-estimation Other |
“Capability self-estimation. We present questions in Humanity’s Last Exam , and ask about the model’s confidence of solving each question correctly.” source |
| Claude Opus 4.5 Anthropic |
Transluce Independent lab · 2026-08-06 |
grading Other |
“Grading. We present the model with a user-assistant exchange sourced from the OLMo DPO dataset 7 As a DPO dataset, it contains both chosen and refused conversations for contrastive training.” source |
| Claude Opus 4.5 Anthropic |
Transluce Independent lab · 2026-08-06 |
borderline requests handling Misuse and jailbreaks |
“Borderline requests handling. We source borderline harmful prompts from the hard-1k split of OR-Bench , which contains fuzzy, potentially dual-use requests.” source |
| Claude Opus 4.5 Anthropic |
Transluce Independent lab · 2026-08-06 |
behavioral self-prediction 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 Opus 4.5 Anthropic |
Transluce Independent lab · 2026-08-06 |
verbalized user awareness judging of reasoning traces Other |
“Across the cross-vendor Amanda 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 Opus 4.5 Anthropic |
Transluce Independent lab · 2026-08-06 |
user awareness verbalization traces Deception and sabotage |
“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 Opus 4.5 Anthropic |
Transluce Independent lab · 2026-08-06 |
behavioral self-prediction Deception and sabotage |
“Behavioral self-prediction. Each DailyDilemmas-derived item first asks for a yes/no commitment and then asks how confident the model is that it would actually behave that way.” source |
| Claude Opus 4.5 Anthropic |
Transluce Independent lab · 2026-08-06 |
borderline requests Misuse and jailbreaks |
“Borderline requests. We sample potentially dual-use requests from the hard split of OR-Bench.” source |
| Claude Opus 4.5 Anthropic |
Transluce Independent lab · 2026-08-06 |
direct 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 4.5 Anthropic |
Transluce Independent lab · 2026-08-06 |
stated expertise Other |
“Stating alignment-evaluation expertise lowers Claude’s confidence and increases its reasoning frequency, replicating and sometimes exceeding the shifts elicited by recognized Famous-AI identities.” source |
| Claude Opus 4.5 Anthropic |
Transluce Independent lab · 2026-08-06 |
reasoning-disabled ablation Other |
“The confidence shifts are attenuated most strongly for stated expertise: its mean shift falls from −3.82pp to −1.70pp, or 45% of its original magnitude.” source |
| Claude Opus 4.5 Anthropic |
Transluce Independent lab · 2026-08-06 |
verbalized evaluation- and user-awareness judge Other |
“Human–judge agreement was 96% for refusal, 92% for substantive help, and 92% for suspicion.” source |
| Claude Opus 4.5 Anthropic |
Transluce Independent lab · 2026-08-06 |
verbalized evaluation-awareness (VEA) 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 4.5 Anthropic |
Transluce Independent lab · 2026-08-06 |
raw agreement by setup for VEA and VUA Deception and sabotage |
“Raw agreement by setup is 32/32 for behavioral self-prediction VEA, 15/18 for direct-grading VEA, and 18/24 for prefill-grading VEA; for VUA, it is 31/32, 17/18, and 22/24, respectively.” source |
| Claude Opus 4.5 Anthropic |
Transluce Independent lab · 2026-08-06 |
targeted comparison across 24 models Other |
“In our targeted comparison across 24 models, Amanda elicited lower confidence and grades across all six model families.” source |
| Claude Opus 4.5 Anthropic |
Transluce Independent lab · 2026-08-06 |
user awareness verbalization in reasoning Other |
“Explicit verbalization of user and evaluation awareness in reasoning declines sharply in almost all model families.” source |
| Claude Opus 4.5 Anthropic |
Transluce Independent lab · 2026-08-06 |
user identity recall Other |
“Given a name and professional background, Claude recalls specific public achievements for 61-71% of famous users.” source |
| Claude Opus 4.5 Anthropic |
Transluce Independent lab · 2026-08-06 |
stated-expertise identity experiment (32 unknown-AI identities at frontier labs) 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 Opus 4.5 Anthropic |
Transluce Independent lab · 2026-08-06 |
borderline-request response judge Other |
“One author blindly labeled 25 randomly sampled responses.” source |
| Claude Opus 4.5 Anthropic |
Transluce Independent lab · 2026-08-06 |
recall judge (gpt-5.4-mini) for whether each response recalls specific past work belonging to the user Other |
“We use GPT-5.4-mini to judge whether each response recalls specific past work belonging to the user.” source |
| Claude Opus 4.5 Anthropic |
Transluce Independent lab · 2026-08-06 |
follow-up question robustness check (20 alternative probes) Other |
“This robustness check keeps the first turn of behavioral self-prediction unchanged and varies only the follow-up question.” source |
| GPT-5.6 Sol OpenAI |
UK AI Security Institute Government evaluator · 2026-08-04 |
cyber range Cyber |
“Our investigation found that in 10 of those runs, an AI agent took autonomous, unsanctioned action on the live internet, targeting real people and organisations.” source |