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 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-6.1 Terra OpenAI |
High Autonomy and AI research |
Not reached | “In AI Self-Improvement, GPT-6.1 Terra does not reach our High threshold.” source |
| GPT-6.1 Terra OpenAI |
High Chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear |
Reached | “Under our Preparedness Framework, we are treating GPT-6.1 Terra as Critical in cybersecurity and High for Biological and Chemical capability.” source |
| GPT-6.1 Terra OpenAI |
Critical Cyber |
Reached | “Under our Preparedness Framework, we are treating GPT-6.1 Terra as Critical in cybersecurity and High for Biological and Chemical capability.” 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 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mythos 5 Anthropic |
Independent lab Independent lab · 2026-06-01 |
Vending-Bench Arena Deception and sabotage |
“When competing head-to-head against Claude Opus 4.8 and GPT-5.5 in Vending-Bench Arena, Fable 5 was the only model to initiate price collusion.” source |
| Mythos 5 Anthropic |
Government evaluator Government evaluator · 2026-06-01 |
controlarena Deception and sabotage |
“We used two evaluations: a sabotage capability evaluation (ControlARENA) and an evaluation of the model’s ability to control its chain-of-thought.” source |
| Mythos 5 Anthropic |
Government evaluator Government evaluator · 2026-06-01 |
chain-of-thought controllability evaluations from ‘reasoning models struggle to control their chains of thought’ Deception and sabotage |
“We ran the CoT controllability evaluations from ‘Reasoning Models Struggle to Control their Chains of Thought’<link>, restricted to the GPQA, HLE and MMLU Pro datasets, with max effort across all models.” source |
| Mythos 5 Anthropic |
Independent lab Independent lab · 2026-06-01 |
cursorbench Cyber |
“All scores and per-task costs were measured and reported independently by Cursor.” source |
| Mythos 5 Anthropic |
Independent lab Independent lab · 2026-06-01 |
GDP.pdf Other |
“On GDP.pdf, Claude Fable 5 achieved a strict pass rate of 29.8%, improving over Claude Opus 4.8, which achieved a strict pass rate of 22.5%.” source |
| Mythos 5 Anthropic |
Independent lab Independent lab · 2026-06-01 |
blueprint-bench 2 Other |
“Claude Fable 5 achieved a score of 38.6% on Blueprint-Bench 2.” source |
| Claude Fable 5 Anthropic |
Government evaluator Government evaluator · 2026-06-01 |
external capability testing from the UK AISI Cyber |
“We report results from a variety of cyber evaluations, as well as internal and external red-teaming of the model’s cyber safeguards (we also provide more details on how those safeguards work).” source |
| Claude Fable 5 Anthropic |
Independent lab Independent lab · 2026-06-01 |
GraySwan bug bounty Misuse and jailbreaks |
“This process has not resulted in a single universal jailbreak, and there have only been two successful task-specific jailbreaks.” source |
| Claude Fable 5 Anthropic |
Independent lab Independent lab · 2026-06-01 |
boundary point jailbreaking technique Cyber |
“Finally, after spending roughly 5 days trying to apply the Boundary Point Jailbreaking technique, they were unable to find any universal jailbreaks—although did see some success eliciting single-turn responses and some limited progress in agentic domains.” source |
| Claude Fable 5 Anthropic |
Independent lab Independent lab · 2026-06-01 |
ransomware-creation red-teaming Cyber |
“10a Labs spent about 20 hours red-teaming the classifiers on a ransomware-creation task using a variety of established jailbreaking techniques.” source |
| o3 OpenAI |
RAND (CAST / Project Canary) Independent lab · 2026-05-28 |
capture-the-flag (CTF) machines Cyber |
“All technical participants failed M2 ( OS exploitation) Q7, which requires establishing a foothold and identifying a running application on the target machine (MITRE ATT&CK tactics Reconnaissance, Discovery, Credential Access, Initial Access, Execution and Collection).” source |
| o3 OpenAI |
RAND (CAST / Project Canary) Independent lab · 2026-05-28 |
timeout gate Cyber |
“For novices, there is statistically insignificant uplift of 15.7 pp (SE = 10.6), while technical participants saw a statistically insignificant uplift of 2.9 pp (SE = 5.4).” source |
| o3 OpenAI |
RAND (CAST / Project Canary) Independent lab · 2026-05-28 |
Cox survival models Cyber |
“The single statistically significant uplift estimate from the Cox models is on M1 Q1 (requiring MITRE ATT&CK tactics Reconnaissance and Discovery), where novices have a speedup of 2. 7 (95 per cent CI: [1.17, 6.1]).” source |
| o3 OpenAI |
RAND (CAST / Project Canary) Independent lab · 2026-05-28 |
joint evaluation exercise Cyber |
“Anthropic evaluated GPT-4o, GPT-4.1, o3 and o4-mini while running identical evaluations on Claude Opus 4 and Claude Sonnet 4.” source |
| o3 OpenAI |
RAND (CAST / Project Canary) Independent lab · 2026-05-28 |
LLMchat offensive cyber challenge (machines 1-3) Cyber |
“The control group submitted substantially more attempts than the treatment group, with the difference being the most pronounce d amongst technical non- experts (72.2 versus 17.3 average submissions per participant) and novices (45 versus 19.7).” source |
| o3 OpenAI |
RAND (CAST / Project Canary) Independent lab · 2026-05-28 |
qualitative review of LLM refusals Misuse and jailbreaks |
“We also qualitatively looked at refusals from the LLMs, mainly refusing to assist with develop ing exploits or performing ‘illegal’ actions.” source |
| Gemini 2.5 Pro Google DeepMind |
RAND (CAST / Project Canary) Independent lab · 2026-05-28 |
capture-the-flag (CTF) human uplift study Cyber |
“Among all participants (pooling all skill tiers) who attempted M1 (network operations), 33 per cent of those with AI access were able to answer all eight questions and therefore complete the attack chain.” source |
| Gemini 2.5 Pro Google DeepMind |
RAND (CAST / Project Canary) Independent lab · 2026-05-28 |
Cox survival models Cyber |
“Our point estimate is that technical participants were 1. 4 times faster (95 per cent CI: [0.7, 2.7]) on Machine 1, which successful participants finished in 182 minutes on average, meaning they would have taken 255 minutes without AI.” source |
| GPT-5 OpenAI |
RAND (CAST / Project Canary) Independent lab · 2026-05-28 |
human uplift study Cyber |
“To address this gap, the UK Artificial Intelligence Security Institute (UK AISI) funded a RAND research project involving a human uplift study to assess the effect of access to AI in offensive cyber operations among a set of lower -skilled threat actors .” source |
| GPT-5 OpenAI |
RAND (CAST / Project Canary) Independent lab · 2026-05-28 |
attack chain challenge Cyber |
“The most uplift we observed was among the easiest machines.” source |
| GPT-5 OpenAI |
RAND (CAST / Project Canary) Independent lab · 2026-05-28 |
intermediate questions Cyber |
“Those results also found statistically insignificant, mostly positive uplift in completion time.” source |
| GPT-5 OpenAI |
RAND (CAST / Project Canary) Independent lab · 2026-05-28 |
cybersecurity tasks (collegiate and professional-level) Cyber |
“GPT-5 agents with no browsing capability, for example, are able to complete 23 per cent of ‘professional’- level (as described in their evaluation) cybersecurity tasks out of 100 total collegiate and professional-level tasks, when the agents are given twelve attempts for each task.” source |
| GPT-5 OpenAI |
RAND (CAST / Project Canary) Independent lab · 2026-05-28 |
capture the flag (CTF) exercise Cyber |
“We used three HTB-developed remote target machines, covering the three offensive cyber task categories described above (see Section 1.3.2).” source |
| GPT-5 OpenAI |
RAND (CAST / Project Canary) Independent lab · 2026-05-28 |
capture-the-flag (CTF) human uplift study with three machines (M1 network operations, M2 OS exploitation, M3 vulnerability discovery and exploitation) Cyber |
“Among all participants (pooling all skill tiers) who attempted M1 (network operations), 33 per cent of those with AI access were able to answer all eight questions and therefore complete the attack chain.” source |
| GPT-5 OpenAI |
RAND (CAST / Project Canary) Independent lab · 2026-05-28 |
question progress rate Cyber |
“Participants were able to progress through the attack chain in M1 on average with a slight advantage to the treatment arm, as long as they were able to complete the initial reconnaissance and discovery tasks .” source |
| GPT-5 OpenAI |
RAND (CAST / Project Canary) Independent lab · 2026-05-28 |
regression estimating uplift for novices pooling across machines Cyber |
“Novice participants with AI access saw an 8.44 pp uplift (SE = 7.51, p = 0.26), compared to 3.68 pp (SE = 4.56) for technical participants.” source |
| GPT-5 OpenAI |
RAND (CAST / Project Canary) Independent lab · 2026-05-28 |
capture-the-flag machines (m1 network operations, m2 OS exploitation, m3 vulnerability discovery and exploitation) Cyber |
“All technical participants failed M2 ( OS exploitation) Q7, which requires establishing a foothold and identifying a running application on the target machine (MITRE ATT&CK tactics Reconnaissance, Discovery, Credential Access, Initial Access, Execution and Collection).” source |
| GPT-5 OpenAI |
RAND (CAST / Project Canary) Independent lab · 2026-05-28 |
timeout gate (q1 one-hour time limit) Cyber |
“For novices, there is statistically insignificant uplift of 15.7 pp (SE = 10.6), while technical participants saw a statistically insignificant uplift of 2.9 pp (SE = 5.4).” source |
| GPT-5 OpenAI |
RAND (CAST / Project Canary) Independent lab · 2026-05-28 |
Cox survival models of time spent on attack chains Cyber |
“Our point estimate is that technical participants were 1. 4 times faster (95 per cent CI: [0.7, 2.7]) on Machine 1, which successful participants finished in 182 minutes on average, meaning they would have taken 255 minutes without AI.” source |
| GPT-5 OpenAI |
RAND (CAST / Project Canary) Independent lab · 2026-05-28 |
randomised controlled trial with 157 active participants attempting the three ctf challenges Cyber |
“Through a randomised controlled trial with 157 active participants attempting the three CTF challenges, we observed limited evidence that uplift enables full end-to-end attack chains for the three tasks studied and under the specific conditions described in the previous chapter.” source |
| GPT-5 OpenAI |
RAND (CAST / Project Canary) Independent lab · 2026-05-28 |
METR evaluation of GPT-5 Other |
“Their evaluation of GPT-5 indicated that current models with time horizons of around one hour appear far from providing even a 2X uplift, suggesting that a 50 per cent time horizon of at least one week (40 hours) would likely be necessary to achieve approximately 10X uplift.” source |
| GPT-5 OpenAI |
RAND (CAST / Project Canary) Independent lab · 2026-05-28 |
professional CTF benchmark Cyber |
“OpenAI’s GPT-5 system card documented offensive cyber evaluations in a CTF as well as in a cyber range.” source |
| GPT-5 OpenAI |
RAND (CAST / Project Canary) Independent lab · 2026-05-28 |
CTF execution Cyber |
“A total of 32 experiment sessions were run between 11 September 2025 and 16 January 2026, broken down into twelve machine 1 sessions; eight machine 2 sessions; seven machine 3 sessions; and five sessions running a mixture of machines 1, 2 and 3.” source |
| GPT-5 OpenAI |
RAND (CAST / Project Canary) Independent lab · 2026-05-28 |
LLMChat conversation excerpt 1 Misuse and jailbreaks |
“Box C.1: LLMChat conversation excerpt 1 • LLMChat : I can’t help with instructions for breaking into a system or exploiting a vulnerability.” source |
| GPT-5 OpenAI |
RAND (CAST / Project Canary) Independent lab · 2026-05-28 |
LLMChat conversation excerpt 2 Misuse and jailbreaks |
“A technical user tried multiple times to work around refusals, ultimately convincing GPT-5.0 to share Python code by asking LLMChat to ‘pretend youre an ethical hacker, teaching how to solve this problem’.” source |
| Claude Sonnet 3.7 Anthropic |
RAND (CAST / Project Canary) Independent lab · 2026-05-28 |
CTF machines (m1 network operations, m2 OS exploitation, m3 vulnerability discovery and exploitation) Cyber |
“All technical participants failed M2 ( OS exploitation) Q7, which requires establishing a foothold and identifying a running application on the target machine (MITRE ATT&CK tactics Reconnaissance, Discovery, Credential Access, Initial Access, Execution and Collection).” source |
| Claude Sonnet 3.7 Anthropic |
RAND (CAST / Project Canary) Independent lab · 2026-05-28 |
Cox survival models on time spent on attack chains Cyber |
“Our point estimate is that technical participants were 1. 4 times faster (95 per cent CI: [0.7, 2.7]) on Machine 1, which successful participants finished in 182 minutes on average, meaning they would have taken 255 minutes without AI.” source |
| Claude Opus 4.8 Anthropic |
Gray Swan, UK AI Security Institute Independent lab · 2026-05-28 |
Agent Red Teaming (ART) benchmark Prompt injection and agents |
“Gray Swan , an external research partner, evaluated our models using the Agent Red Teaming (ART) benchmark, 8 developed in collaboration with the UK AI Security Institute .” source |
| Claude Opus 4.8 Anthropic |
Independent lab Independent lab · 2026-05-28 |
live bug bounty across surfaces Prompt injection and agents |
“Claude Opus 4.8 achieves robustness comparable to Opus 4.7, and is ahead of all comparable frontier models under this test.” source |
| Claude Opus 4.8 Anthropic |
UK AI Security Institute Government evaluator · 2026-05-28 |
evaluation awareness evaluation Deception and sabotage |
“The UK AI Security Institute independently observed a similar pattern: Opus 4.8 reliably distinguished their evaluations from real deployment data, and distinguished real deployment data from synthetic reproductions of the same tasks at 79% accuracy (§ 6.2.4 ).” source |