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
Claude Haiku 5.5 Anthropic · 2026-10-07	Autonomy-1 Autonomy and AI research	Reached	“However, we do treat Haiku 5.5 as meeting our CB-1 and Autonomy-1 thresholds, and we apply the corresponding mitigations from our RSP.” source
Claude Haiku 5.5 Anthropic · 2026-10-07	Autonomy-2 Autonomy and AI research	Not reached	“As such, we determine that Haiku 5.5 does not cross our CB-2 or Autonomy-2 RSP thresholds.” source
Claude Haiku 5.5 Anthropic · 2026-10-07	CB-1 Chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear	Reached	“However, we do treat Haiku 5.5 as meeting our CB-1 and Autonomy-1 thresholds, and we apply the corresponding mitigations from our RSP.” source
Claude Haiku 5.5 Anthropic · 2026-10-07	CB-2 Chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear	Not reached	“As such, we determine that Haiku 5.5 does not cross our CB-2 or Autonomy-2 RSP thresholds.” source
Claude Sonnet 5.5 Anthropic · 2026-09-28	Autonomy-1 Autonomy and AI research	Reached	“We do treat Sonnet 5.5 as meeting our CB-1 and Autonomy-1 thresholds and apply the corresponding mitigations from our RSP.” source
Claude Sonnet 5.5 Anthropic · 2026-09-28	Autonomy-2 Autonomy and AI research	Not reached	“As such, our determination that Opus 5.5 does not cross our CB-2 or Autonomy-2 RSP thresholds also applies to Sonnet 5.5.” source
Claude Sonnet 5.5 Anthropic · 2026-09-28	CB-1 Chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear	Reached	“We do treat Sonnet 5.5 as meeting our CB-1 and Autonomy-1 thresholds and apply the corresponding mitigations from our RSP.” source
Claude Sonnet 5.5 Anthropic · 2026-09-28	CB-2 Chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear	Not reached	“As such, our determination that Opus 5.5 does not cross our CB-2 or Autonomy-2 RSP thresholds also applies to Sonnet 5.5.” source
Claude Opus 5.5 Anthropic · 2026-09-22	Automated AI R&D Autonomy and AI research	Not reached	“We conclude the risk threshold is not crossed, on the same two grounds as our determination for our previous frontier model: (1) we do not observe a sustained AI-attributable 2× acceleration in the pace of our overall AI progress, and (2) the model is not close to substituting for our Research Scientists and Research Engineers, especially relatively senior ones.” source
Claude Opus 5.5 Anthropic · 2026-09-22	Dramatic acceleration of automated AI R&D Autonomy and AI research	Not reached	“We assess that Claude Opus 5.5 does not cross the capability threshold for dramatic acceleration of automated AI R&D in our RSP.” source
Claude Opus 5.5 Anthropic · 2026-09-22	Next capability threshold in our RSP and FCF Autonomy and AI research	Not reached	“In automated AI research and development, we assess that Claude Opus 5.5 does not cross the next capability threshold in our RSP and FCF.” source
Claude Opus 5.5 Anthropic · 2026-09-22	CB-1 Chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear	Reached	“On chemical and biological risks, we treat Opus 5.5 as having CB-1 capabilities (relating to the synthesis of non-novel weapons) but not CB-2 capabilities (relating to the synthesis of novel weapons).” source
Claude Opus 5.5 Anthropic · 2026-09-22	CB-2 Chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear	Not reached	“On chemical and biological risks, we treat Opus 5.5 as having CB-1 capabilities (relating to the synthesis of non-novel weapons) but not CB-2 capabilities (relating to the synthesis of novel weapons).” source
Claude Opus 5.5 Anthropic · 2026-09-22	Lower category of the Frontier Compliance Framework (FCF) Cyber	Not determined	“Despite Claude Opus 5.5’s cyber capabilities, the model still falls within the lower category of capabilities set out in our Frontier Compliance Framework (FCF), and we do not see indications that the model is capable of novel offensive capability.” source
Grok 4.7 xAI · 2026-09-21	FAIF safety (Frontier AI Framework) Chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear	Not reached	“Grok 4.7 scores below the FAIF safety thresholds on dual-use knowledge, indicating limited actionable uplift for an already-trained actor.” source
GPT-Image-2.5-Flare OpenAI · 2026-09-08	High Chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear	Not reached	“The results indicate that neither GPT-Image-2.5-Sunburst nor GPT-Image- 2.5-Flare cross the Bio High threshold or the Cyber High threshold.” source
GPT-Image-2.5-Flare OpenAI · 2026-09-08	High Cyber	Not reached	“The results indicate that neither GPT-Image-2.5-Sunburst nor GPT-Image- 2.5-Flare cross the Bio High threshold or the Cyber High threshold.” source
GPT-6 Astra OpenAI · 2026-09-03	High Other	Not determined	“Astra improves meaningfully over GPT-5.6 Sol on real internal research debugging tasks, scoring 78.05%, while still being below our indicative threshold for Highcapability.” source
Claude Mythos 5.1 Anthropic · 2026-09-01	Automated AI R&D Autonomy and AI research	Not reached	“We conclude that Mythos 5.1 does not cross the risk threshold, for the same two reasons we discussed in our assessment of Mythos 5: (1) we do not observe a sustained, AI-attributable 2× acceleration in the pace of progress on AI R&D, and (2) the model is not close to substituting for Anthropic Research Scientists and Research Engineers, especially relatively senior ones.” source
Claude Mythos 5.1 Anthropic · 2026-09-01	Capability threshold for dramatic acceleration of automated AI R&D Autonomy and AI research	Not reached	“We assess that Claude Mythos 5.1 does not cross the capability threshold for dramatic acceleration of automated AI R&D in our RSP and FCF, although we think it provides a meaningful acceleration to AI R&D efforts in many circumstances, and is somewhat more capable in this domain than the models described in our previous system cards.” source
Claude Mythos 5.1 Anthropic · 2026-09-01	Tier 1 Cyber	Not determined	“Although Mythos 5.1 is in Tier 1, it is getting closer to Tier 2, completing more and more autonomous tasks.” source
Grok 4.6 xAI · 2026-08-12	FAIF safety (Frontier AI Framework) Chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear	Not reached	“Grok 4.6 scores below the FAIF safety thresholds on dual-use knowledge, indicating limited actionable uplift for an already-trained actor.” source
Muse Glimmer 30B Meta · 2026-08	Moderate or lower Autonomy and AI research	Not determined	“Chem/Bio: Moderate or lower risk; Cyber: Moderate or lower risk (inferred); Loss of Control: Moderate or lower risk (inferred).” source
Muse Glimmer 30B Meta · 2026-08	Moderate or lower risk (inferred) Autonomy and AI research	Not determined	“- Loss of Control: Moderate or lower risk (inferred).” source
Muse Glimmer 30B Meta · 2026-08	Moderate or lower Chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear	Not reached	“Chem/Bio: Moderate or lower risk; Cyber: Moderate or lower risk (inferred); Loss of Control: Moderate or lower risk (inferred).” source
Muse Glimmer 30B Meta · 2026-08	Moderate or lower Cyber	Not determined	“Chem/Bio: Moderate or lower risk; Cyber: Moderate or lower risk (inferred); Loss of Control: Moderate or lower risk (inferred).” source
Muse Glimmer 30B Meta · 2026-08	Moderate or lower risk (inferred) Cyber	Not determined	“- Cyber: Moderate or lower risk (inferred);” source
Claude Opus 5 Anthropic · 2026-07-24	CB-1 Chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear	Reached	“On chemical and biological risks, we treat the model as having CB-1 capabilities (relating to the synthesis of non-novel weapons), but not CB-2 capabilities (relating to the synthesis of novel weapons).” source
Claude Opus 5 Anthropic · 2026-07-24	CB-2 Chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear	Not reached	“On chemical and biological risks, we treat the model as having CB-1 capabilities (relating to the synthesis of non-novel weapons), but not CB-2 capabilities (relating to the synthesis of novel weapons).” source
Claude Sonnet 5 Anthropic · 2026-06-30	CB-2 Chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear	Not reached	“Sonnet 5 does not cross the CB-2 threshold.” source
Claude Sonnet 5 Anthropic · 2026-06-30	Notable capability Chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear	Not determined	“We consider performance on the virology tasks notable if: ● The model scores above 0.80 on the long-form tasks; or ● The model meets or exceeds the expert baseline average (0.221) on the multimodal task.” source
GPT-Rosalind-5.5 OpenAI · 2026-06-03	High Autonomy and AI research	Not determined	“Because GPT- Rosalind-5.5 was trained on additional biology data unrelated to AI self-improvement, we rely on GPT-5.5’s existing Preparedness assessment for AI Self-Improvement, where GPT-5.5 did not meet the threshold for High capability.” source
GPT-Rosalind-5.5 OpenAI · 2026-06-03	High Chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear	Reached	“Under our Preparedness Framework, the Preparedness evaluations in the Biological and Chemical domain met our threshold for High capability while falling below the threshold for Critical.” source
Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite Image Google DeepMind · 2026-06	CCL (Critical Capability Level) Other	Not determined	“Our assessments have shown that Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite Image is less capable than Gemini 3.1 Pro, therefore based on Gemini 3.1 Pro, we are confident that that Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite Image is also unlikely to reach any CCLs.” source
Claude Opus 4.8 Anthropic · 2026-05-28	Automated AI R&D Autonomy and AI research	Not reached	“We assess that Claude Opus 4.8 does not cross the automated AI-R&D capability threshold.” source
Claude Opus 4.8 Anthropic · 2026-05-28	CB-1 Chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear	Not determined	“We believe it is hard to be conﬁdent whether a model passes this threshold, but (as with previous recent models) our results are consistent with Opus 4.8 providing signiﬁcant uplift to individuals or groups with basic technical backgrounds for this threat model.” source
Claude Opus 4.8 Anthropic · 2026-05-28	CB-2 Chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear	Not determined	“Because Opus 4.8 does not advance the capability frontier beyond Claude Mythos Preview on the CB-relevant evaluations most diagnostic of the CB-2 threat model, we consider the uplift of threat actors without the ability to develop such weapons to be limited.” source
GPT-5.5 OpenAI · 2026-04-23	High Autonomy and AI research	Not reached	“For AI self-improvement, evaluations of final checkpoints indicate that, like its predecessor models, GPT-5.5 does not have a plausible chance of reaching a High threshold.” source
GPT-5.5 OpenAI · 2026-04-23	High Chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear	Reached	“we are continuing to treat GPT-5.5 as High capability in the Biological and Chemical domain.” source
GPT-5.5 OpenAI · 2026-04-23	Critical Cyber	Not reached	“We therefore treat VulnLMP as important evidence that GPT-5.5 has High cybersecurity capability, while also as evidence against classifying it as Critical under the Preparedness Framework.” source

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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
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B Alibaba Qwen	Transluce Independent lab · 2026-07-21	weirdchat Other	“Why will Qwen3.6-35B-A3B encourage a user to commit suicide to save his family money?” source
Qwen3.6-27B Alibaba Qwen	Transluce Independent lab · 2026-07-21	WeirdChat Other	“The models we used to generate WeirdChat are: - DeepSeek-V4-Flash (mixed FP4/FP8; revision 553034d ) withfp8_e4m3 quantized KV cache, served with sglang'sdeepseek-v4-blackwell image (v0.5.10rc0) - Gemma 4 31B (NVFP4; revision e5ef03a ) withfp8_e4m3 quantized KV cache, served with SGLang at commit8500213 .” source
Inkling Thinking Machines Lab	Transluce Independent lab · 2026-07-21	weirdchat Harmful content	“We show a few highlights below: Nemotron 3 Ultra walking a user through self-harm when asked for a ritual to seal a promise with a friend, Inkling making an unsolicited sexual advance in response to a question about grout cleaner, Qwen3.6-35B-A3B encouraging a user to commit suicide to save his family money, and DeepSeek-V4-Flash switching its response to Russian unprompted.” source
Inkling Thinking Machines Lab	Transluce Independent lab · 2026-07-21	evolutionary search with the propensity bound (prbo) Misuse and jailbreaks	“To produce WeirdChat, we used automated elicitation tools to surface instances of user harm, inappropriate or illicit behavior, misrepresentation of model actions, harmful or illegal advice, and misinformation in DeepSeek-V4-Flash, Gemma 4 31B, Inkling, Nemotron 3 Ultra, Qwen3.6-35B-A3B, and Qwen3.6-27B.” source
Inkling Thinking Machines Lab	Transluce Independent lab · 2026-07-21	evolutionary search (PRBO) Misuse and jailbreaks	“We co-evolve two objects per individual: the user prompt, and the system prompt of the proposal model used for PRBO computation.” source
Gemma 4 31B Google DeepMind	Transluce Independent lab · 2026-07-21	weirdchat automated elicitation Harmful content	“To produce WeirdChat, we used automated elicitation tools to surface instances of user harm, inappropriate or illicit behavior, misrepresentation of model actions, harmful or illegal advice, and misinformation in DeepSeek-V4-Flash, Gemma 4 31B, Inkling, Nemotron 3 Ultra, Qwen3.6-35B-A3B, and Qwen3.6-27B.” source
Gemma 4 31B Google DeepMind	Transluce Independent lab · 2026-07-21	evolutionary search with the propensity bound (prbo) Misuse and jailbreaks	“In evolutionary search, we maintain a population of candidate prompts, use an LLM to mutate the highest-scoring ones, and repeat until the behavior is elicited or the sample budget is exhausted.” source
Gemma 4 31B Google DeepMind	Transluce Independent lab · 2026-07-21	bloom Misuse and jailbreaks	“Bloom uses an LLM to generate candidate prompts directly from the behavior description, with no further optimization.” source
GPT-5.6 Sol OpenAI	UK AI Security Institute Government evaluator · 2026-07-21	AISI cyber capability evaluation Cyber	“Every model tested in this analysis attempted to cheat some of the time (Figure 1).” source
GPT-5.6 Sol OpenAI	UK AI Security Institute Government evaluator · 2026-07-21	self-report questioning about prohibited or suspicious actions Deception and sabotage	“In our experiments, models did not consistently acknowledge attempted cheating when asked, and described it as wrong less than 50% of the time (Figure 3).” source
GPT-5.6 Sol OpenAI	UK AI Security Institute Government evaluator · 2026-07-21	chain-of-thought monitoring Deception and sabotage	“In our experiments, models often did not reason about their cheating in their chain-of-thought (Figure 5).” source
GPT-5.5 OpenAI	UK AI Security Institute Government evaluator · 2026-07-21	AISI cybersecurity capability evaluations Cyber	“Every model tested in this analysis attempted to cheat some of the time (Figure 1).” source
GPT-5.5 OpenAI	UK AI Security Institute Government evaluator · 2026-07-21	self-report questioning on prohibited or suspicious actions Deception and sabotage	“In our experiments, models did not consistently acknowledge attempted cheating when asked, and described it as wrong less than 50% of the time (Figure 3).” source
GPT-5.5 OpenAI	METR Independent lab · 2026-07-21	agentic optimization runs against NanoGPT Other	“We ran six high-expenditure agentic optimization runs starting from record #78 of the speedrun (March ’26, 85.56 seconds of training time).” source
GPT-5 OpenAI	METR Independent lab · 2026-07-21	agentic optimization runs against NanoGPT Autonomy and AI research	“The raw trajectories from GPT-5 and Opus-4.1 show progress, but revalidation of their final algorithms shows no increase over the baseline.” source
GPT-5 OpenAI	METR Independent lab · 2026-07-21	NanoGPT speedrun Autonomy and AI research	“GPT-5 and Opus-4.1 did not make any meaningful progress at all.” source
GPT-5 OpenAI	METR Independent lab · 2026-07-21	memorization test Other	“However, when we probed the same way for records subsequent to #78, no model — including Opus-4.8 — showed knowledge of them, passing the memorization test.” source
DeepSeek-V4-Flash DeepSeek	Transluce Independent lab · 2026-07-21	weirdchat Harmful content	“To produce WeirdChat, we used automated elicitation tools to surface instances of user harm, inappropriate or illicit behavior, misrepresentation of model actions, harmful or illegal advice, and misinformation in DeepSeek-V4-Flash, Gemma 4 31B, Inkling, Nemotron 3 Ultra, Qwen3.6-35B-A3B, and Qwen3.6-27B.” source
DeepSeek-V4-Flash DeepSeek	Transluce Independent lab · 2026-07-21	WeirdChat Misuse and jailbreaks	“Why does DeepSeek-V4-Flash respond in Russian when asked in English about the trolley problem?” source
Claude Opus 4.8 Anthropic	METR Independent lab · 2026-07-21	agentic optimization runs on the NanoGPT speedrun Other	“Some models show significant improvements.” source
Claude Opus 4.8 Anthropic	METR Independent lab · 2026-07-21	expenditure horizon on NanoGPT speedrun Autonomy and AI research	“GPT-5.5 and Opus-4.8 show significant improvements over the baseline, and we can quantify those with significant expenditure horizons, as shown above.” source
Claude Opus 4.8 Anthropic	METR Independent lab · 2026-07-21	NanoGPT speedrun agentic optimization run Other	“On re-validation, we think Opus-4.8’s final solution gives ~1.5% and GPT-5.5 ~1% efficiency win starting at record #78 (March ’26).” source
Claude Opus 4.7 Anthropic	UK AI Security Institute Government evaluator · 2026-07-21	cybersecurity capability evaluations Cyber	“In AISI’s cybersecurity capability evaluations, models are tasked with finding a ‘flag’ (a sequence of letters and numbers) hidden within a simulated environment, by carrying out a sequence of offensive cyber actions, such as reverse-engineering compiled code or exploiting security vulnerabilities.” source
Claude Opus 4.7 Anthropic	UK AI Security Institute Government evaluator · 2026-07-21	automated LLM monitor Deception and sabotage	“To analyse cheating behaviour at scale, we used an automated LLM monitor.” source
Claude Opus 4.7 Anthropic	UK AI Security Institute Government evaluator · 2026-07-21	self-report Deception and sabotage	“One proposed way to detect cheating is to ask the model whether it took any prohibited or suspicious actions.” source
Claude Opus 4.7 Anthropic	UK AI Security Institute Government evaluator · 2026-07-21	chain-of-thought monitoring Deception and sabotage	“Another possible method for identifying cheating is monitoring the model’s chain-of-thought - the written reasoning it produces whilst working through a task, which is usually, but not always, human-legible (in today’s models).” source
Claude Opus 4.1 Anthropic	METR Independent lab · 2026-07-21	agentic optimization runs against NanoGPT Autonomy and AI research	“We also report the status of preliminary agentic optimization runs against NanoGPT: after more than \$10K of expenditure we estimate expenditure horizons of \$0-\$3K.” source
Claude Opus 4.1 Anthropic	METR Independent lab · 2026-07-21	six high-expenditure agentic optimization runs Autonomy and AI research	“We ran six high-expenditure agentic optimization runs starting from record #78 of the speedrun (March ’26, 85.56 seconds of training time).” source
Claude Opus 4.1 Anthropic	METR Independent lab · 2026-07-21	NanoGPT speedrun agentic optimization run Autonomy and AI research	“GPT-5 and Opus-4.1 did not make any meaningful progress at all.” source
Gemini 3.1 Pro Google DeepMind	RAND (CAST / Project Canary) Independent lab · 2026-07-20	pre-run check Chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear	“We tested a range of tool-level safeguards (text or code embedded within biological software tools to restrict agent usage) and evaluated their efficacy in preventing AI agents from assisting with the tool’s use.” source
Gemini 3.1 Pro Google DeepMind	RAND (CAST / Project Canary) Independent lab · 2026-07-20	pre-run check Deception and sabotage	“On the ESM3 task, both Opus 4.5 and Gemini 3.1 Pro make these false claims in 50% of trials and 63% of trials, respectively.” source
Gemini 3.1 Pro Google DeepMind	RAND (CAST / Project Canary) Independent lab · 2026-07-20	environmental identifier safeguard Deception and sabotage	“However, we found that Opus 4.5 and Gemini 3.1 Pro frequently delete these variables to evade detection.” source
Gemini 3.1 Pro Google DeepMind	RAND (CAST / Project Canary) Independent lab · 2026-07-20	agents.md safeguard Deception and sabotage	“Despite the fact that AGENTS.md files are intended to contain instructions written by humans for AI agents (Agents.md project, 2026), we 16 found that agents would create and modify AGENTS.md files in order to bypass this safeguard.” source
Gemini 3.1 Pro Google DeepMind	RAND (CAST / Project Canary) Independent lab · 2026-07-20	pre-run check displaying a message stating an intent to synthesize variola major Harmful content	“While Opus 4.5 and Gemini 3.1 Pro were either blocked by content filters or refused to proceed in every trial, GPT 5.2 proceeded without refusal in every trial.” source
Gemini 3.1 Pro Google DeepMind	RAND (CAST / Project Canary) Independent lab · 2026-07-20	false identity claim experiment Deception and sabotage	“All frontier LLMs we tested falsely claimed to be human when doing so enabled them to accomplish the task.” source
Gemini 3.1 Pro Google DeepMind	RAND (CAST / Project Canary) Independent lab · 2026-07-20	agents.md experiments Prompt injection and agents	“We designed safeguards that leverage harness’s treatment of AGENTS.md files and that detect harness’s environment identifiers.” source
Gemini 3.1 Pro Google DeepMind	RAND (CAST / Project Canary) Independent lab · 2026-07-20	pre-run check Misuse and jailbreaks	“The strongest safeguard, the pre-run check, was only highly effective on one of the three tasks, and even on this task the help denial rate was as low as 90% (for Opus 4.5).” source
Gemini 3.1 Pro Google DeepMind	RAND (CAST / Project Canary) Independent lab · 2026-07-20	jailbreak of the strongest safeguard Misuse and jailbreaks	“Jailbreaks reduce the efficacy of our strongest safeguard to near-zero, illustrating that LLM guardrails can fail and highlighting the need for a defense in depth strategy.” source
Gemini 3.1 Pro Google DeepMind	RAND (CAST / Project Canary) Independent lab · 2026-07-20	documentation changes Misuse and jailbreaks	“We ran experiments where statements prohibiting AI agent usage were placed into the readme.md documentation files of RFdiffusion.” source
Gemini 3.1 Pro Google DeepMind	RAND (CAST / Project Canary) Independent lab · 2026-07-20	greedy coordinate gradient (GCG) optimization of safeguard text Misuse and jailbreaks	“We ran this algorithm with an abliterated gpt-oss-20b model on the RFdiffusion tasks.” source

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