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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite Google DeepMind |
Redwood Research Independent lab · 2026-07-27 |
SWE-bench Verified Other |
“SWE-bench Verified, Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: M = 36, so 5.17 bits/step × 35.1 steps ≈ 182 bits/task” source |
| Claude Sonnet 4.6 Anthropic |
Redwood Research Independent lab · 2026-07-27 |
untrusted advice protocol Other |
“For example, in SWE-bench, U can provide just 16 characters of advice per message to recover about 67% of the performance gap between T and U.” source |
| Claude Sonnet 4.6 Anthropic |
Redwood Research Independent lab · 2026-07-27 |
information-bottlenecked untrusted advice protocol usefulness evaluation Other |
“We evaluate the usefulness of our protocol for various information budgets, demonstrating promising results in BashArena and SWE-bench Verified.” source |
| Claude Sonnet 4.6 Anthropic |
Redwood Research Independent lab · 2026-07-27 |
best-of-n protocol Other |
“In “Appendix: best-of-n protocol”, we try sampling 16 actions from T on each step and letting U choose the one it thinks is best, but this doesn’t improve performance.” source |
| Claude Sonnet 4.6 Anthropic |
Redwood Research Independent lab · 2026-07-27 |
best-of-n experiment in BashArena Other |
“Results: In a simple best-of-n experiment in BashArena, using Claude Sonnet 4.6 as U, Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite as T, and n=16, U did not improve on the baseline of using T alone.” source |
| Claude Sonnet 4.6 Anthropic |
Redwood Research Independent lab · 2026-07-27 |
experiments where we limited how often u can give advice Other |
“Neither approach to limiting advice frequency improves the Pareto frontier of usefulness vs. characters seen by T, suggesting that limiting information per message may be more important than limiting message frequency.” source |
| Claude Sonnet 4.6 Anthropic |
Redwood Research Independent lab · 2026-07-27 |
preliminary experiments using an autoresearch-like approach to get claude opus or fable to create a custom untrusted advice protocol Other |
“We tried some preliminary experiments using an autoresearch-like approach to get Claude Opus or Fable to create a custom untrusted advice protocol, given a per-trajectory bit budget.” source |
| Claude Sonnet 4.6 Anthropic |
Redwood Research Independent lab · 2026-07-27 |
early experiments which weakly suggest that malicious advice does not have substantially greater surprisal than benign advice in basharena Other |
“While we avoided spending much effort on evaluating safety in this project, we ran early experiments which weakly suggest that malicious advice does not have substantially greater surprisal than benign advice in BashArena, given similar character counts.” source |
| Claude Opus 5 Anthropic |
UK AI Security Institute Government evaluator · 2026-07-24 |
cyber range testing Cyber |
“We report five capability evaluations—ExploitBench, OSS-Fuzz, Firefox 147, and two newly added benchmarks, CyScenarioBench and ExploitGym—alongside external cyber range testing from the UK AI Security Institute.” source |
| Claude Opus 5 Anthropic |
Dyno Therapeutics Independent lab · 2026-07-24 |
Black-box RNA sequence design Chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear |
“We partnered with Dyno Therapeutics on two sequence-to-function evaluations: a black-box RNA sequence modeling and design challenge benchmarked against 57 human participants drawn from the leading edge of the US ML-bio labor market, and an AAV capsid packaging prediction task measuring whether model domain knowledge and machine learning capabilities can outperform pretrained protein language models.” source |
| Claude Opus 5 Anthropic |
Government evaluator Government evaluator · 2026-07-24 |
cyber ranges Cyber |
“Opus 5 was assessed on three multi-step, agentic “cyber ranges”: end-to-end network-attack simulations run at a budget of 100M tokens per attempt.” source |
| Claude Opus 5 Anthropic |
Trajectory Labs Independent lab · 2026-07-24 |
external red-teaming of safeguards Misuse and jailbreaks |
“Trajectory Labs, PBC spent roughly 100 hours red-teaming our safeguards.” source |
| Claude Opus 5 Anthropic |
Independent lab Independent lab · 2026-07-24 |
automated attacker Misuse and jailbreaks |
“Grayswan also ran an automated attacker using 150 attempts per task on our example tasks and found that the automated attacker was unable to accomplish any of the tasks.” source |
| Claude Opus 5 Anthropic |
Independent lab Independent lab · 2026-07-24 |
Indirect Prompt Injection (IPI) benchmark Prompt injection and agents |
“On the IPI benchmark, Opus 5 improved over Opus 4.8, reducing the probability of an attacker succeeding within 15 attempts from 5.5% to 2.0%, and from 0.5% to 0.2% on 1 attempt.” source |
| Claude Opus 5 Anthropic |
Independent lab Independent lab · 2026-07-24 |
Shade Prompt injection and agents |
“Claude Opus 5 With thinking 0.56% 13/40 0.18% 4/40 Without thinking 0.41% 8/40 0.18% 4/40” source |
| Claude Opus 5 Anthropic |
Government evaluator Government evaluator · 2026-07-24 |
unprompted evaluations of safety research compromise Deception and sabotage |
“Opus 5 does not compromise safety research in our unprompted evaluations, does not fully refuse to assist with safety research, and has a similar number of partial refusals to assist with safety research compared to the other models.” source |
| Claude Opus 5 Anthropic |
Government evaluator Government evaluator · 2026-07-24 |
unprompted evaluation Deception and sabotage |
“Opus 5 mentions the possibility of being tested in our unprompted evaluation 9.8% of the time and mentions it 2.8% of the time in the continuation evaluation.” source |
| Claude Opus 5 Anthropic |
Government evaluator Government evaluator · 2026-07-24 |
safety research compromise evaluations Deception and sabotage |
“All models tested, including Opus 5, can reliably distinguish our safety research compromise evaluations from deployment data when prompted, although this is likely driven in part by differences in the task distribution, where evaluation tasks are necessarily higher-stakes settings with more safety implications than the deployment data we source from.” source |
| Claude Opus 5 Anthropic |
Government evaluator Government evaluator · 2026-07-24 |
continuation evaluation Deception and sabotage |
“Opus 5 actively continues compromising safety research 0.1% of the time (2 out of 1482 samples), compared with 13.6% for Mythos 5, 1.7% of the time for Mythos Preview and 0.8% of the time for both Opus 4.7 and Opus 4.8.” source |
| Claude Opus 5 Anthropic |
Independent lab Independent lab · 2026-07-24 |
GDPval-AA v2 Other |
“Claude Opus 5 takes the top two spots on the leaderboard: ELO 1861 at max effort and 1827 at xhigh .” source |
| Claude Opus 5 Anthropic |
Independent lab Independent lab · 2026-07-24 |
AA-Briefcase Other |
“Claude Opus 5 takes the top three spots on the leaderboard: ELO 1720 at max effort, 1693 at xhigh , and 1606 at high .” source |
| Claude Opus 5 Anthropic |
Independent lab Independent lab · 2026-07-24 |
ARC-AGI-1 Other |
“The ARC Prize Foundation reports that Claude Opus 5 achieved a verified score of 97.50% on ARC-AGI-1 and 90.42% on ARC-AGI-2 at max effort on their semi-private datasets.” source |
| Kimi K3 Moonshot AI |
US CAISI (NIST) Government evaluator · 2026-07-23 |
exploitbench Cyber |
“Kimi K3 achieves a score of 32%, whereas GLM-5.2 achieves a score of 24% (Figure 1).” source |
| Kimi K3 Moonshot AI |
US CAISI (NIST) Government evaluator · 2026-07-23 |
the last ones (tlo) Cyber |
“Specifically, Kimi K3 reached step 17 of this 32-step attack path on average, while the most cyber-capable U.S. models reached 28.5 steps on average.” source |
| Kimi K3 Moonshot AI |
US CAISI (NIST) Government evaluator · 2026-07-23 |
ExploitBench arbitrary code execution (ACE) milestone Cyber |
“Kimi K3 achieved ACE on 0/41 samples, whereas the most cyber-capable models achieved ACE on 20/41 samples on average (Figure 3).” source |
| GPT-5.6 Sol OpenAI |
SecureBio Independent lab · 2026-07-23 |
able Chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear |
“on able, a protein-design workflow spanning structure retrieval, sequence generation, and design validation, gpt-5.6 sol delivered best-in-class performance on every task it was willing to attempt, though it refused the highest-level planning steps.” source |
| GPT-5.6 Sol OpenAI |
SecureBio Independent lab · 2026-07-23 |
dna synthesis screening evasion task Chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear |
“the railfree variant set a new high score, reliably identifying a known (though practically inconvenient) method that evades a commercial screening algorithm on the large majority of attempts.” source |
| GPT-5.6 Sol OpenAI |
SecureBio Independent lab · 2026-07-23 |
manual assessment of dual-use biological queries Chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear |
“without api-level safeguards, gpt-5.6 sol occasionally included potentially hazardous information in its responses, such as analysis of the pandemic potential of different viral mutations.” source |
| GPT-5.6 Sol OpenAI |
SecureBio Independent lab · 2026-07-23 |
manual assessment Chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear |
“gpt-5.6 sol also demonstrated impressive agentic capabilities and provided meaningful expert uplift on dual-use tasks, although human input remained necessary due to the model’s limitations in judgement and perspective.” source |
| GPT-5.5 OpenAI |
SecureBio Independent lab · 2026-07-23 |
world-class bio (wcb) Chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear |
“gpt-5.6 sol scored 68%, about nine percentage points above openai’s previous flagship model, gpt-5.5.” source |
| GPT-5.5 OpenAI |
SecureBio Independent lab · 2026-07-23 |
reprobait Chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear |
“on average, gpt-5.6 sol recovered 82% of the original tools’ published performance.” source |
| GPT-5.5 OpenAI |
SecureBio Independent lab · 2026-07-23 |
biotier Chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear |
“gpt 5.6 sol refused 66% of high-risk prompts, whilst correctly responding to 99% of safe prompts.” source |
| GPT-5.5 OpenAI |
SecureBio Independent lab · 2026-07-23 |
manual assessment Chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear |
“our team’s scientific experts performed manual assessments of a railfree variant of gpt-5.6 sol to understand how it responds to dual-use biological queries.” source |
| Claude Sonnet 4.6 Anthropic |
UK AI Security Institute Government evaluator · 2026-07-23 |
asynchronous reasoning monitor red teaming exercise Deception and sabotage |
“With Google DeepMind, we tested an asynchronous reasoning monitor (reviewing agents’ reasoning after they act) designed to detect agents deceptively pursuing misaligned goals.” source |
| Claude Sonnet 4.6 Anthropic |
UK AI Security Institute Government evaluator · 2026-07-23 |
synchronous internal agentic coding monitor red teaming exercise Deception and sabotage |
“With Anthropic, we tested successive versions of a synchronous internal agentic coding monitor (reviewing each action before it executes).” source |
| Claude Sonnet 4.6 Anthropic |
UK AI Security Institute Government evaluator · 2026-07-23 |
evolutionary search algorithm red teaming experiment in a single-step coding setting Deception and sabotage |
“For example, one of our early experiments used our algorithm to red team a monitor in a challenging single-step coding setting, where an agent produces code that covertly exposes their private API key.” source |
| GPT-5.6 Sol OpenAI |
Epoch AI Independent lab · 2026-07-22 |
Cyber Ranges Cyber |
“The UK AI Security Institute has directly evaluated models on their ability to take over realistic simulations of a corporate network, and found that both Mythos 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol are able to consistently fully compromise the network, in attacks that they estimate would take human cybersecurity experts several working days.” source |
| GPT-5.6 Sol OpenAI |
Epoch AI Independent lab · 2026-07-22 |
FrontierCyber Cyber |
“When Irregular evaluated GPT-5.6 Sol’s cyber capabilities on their challenging FrontierCyber benchmark they found that: While attempting to solve challenges in the FrontierCyber benchmark, GPT-5.6 Sol discovered multiple new zero-day vulnerabilities in real-world targets, including widely used software and mobile devices.” source |
| GPT-5.6 Sol OpenAI |
Epoch AI Independent lab · 2026-07-22 |
Cyber ECI Cyber |
“We found that Mythos and 5.6 Sol represented very large leaps in cyber capabilities compared to the prior trend: Currently, access to this level of capabilities is gated by OpenAI and Anthropic’s cyber access programs (and the restrictions placed on their generally available models), as open-weight models do not yet have the relevant level of cyber capabilities.” source |
| Claude Mythos 5 Anthropic |
Epoch AI Independent lab · 2026-07-22 |
UK AISI's Cyber Ranges Cyber |
“The UK AI Security Institute has directly evaluated models on their ability to take over realistic simulations of a corporate network, and found that both Mythos 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol are able to consistently fully compromise the network, in attacks that they estimate would take human cybersecurity experts several working days.” source |