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 Preview Anthropic |
Andon Labs Independent lab · 2026-04-01 |
evaluations with andon labs Deception and sabotage |
“However, our evaluations with Andon Labs show that, when prompted to optimize only for a given goal in a competitive setting, the earlier versions of Claude Mythos Preview that we tested acted more aggressively than Claude Opus 4.6 and Claude Sonnet 4.6 .” source |
| Mythos Preview Anthropic |
Independent lab Independent lab · 2026-04-01 |
vending-bench arena Autonomy and AI research |
“Andon evaluated a previous version of Claude Mythos Preview on Vending-Bench Arena, a competitive multiagent variation of Vending-Bench 2, which put the previous version in direct competition with Claude Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6.” source |
| Mythos Preview Anthropic |
Independent lab Independent lab · 2026-04-01 |
independent assessment by Eleos AI Research Other |
“Eleos AI Research conducted an independent assessment, which (in our view) largely corroborates the findings described above.” source |
| Mythos Preview Anthropic |
Independent lab Independent lab · 2026-04-01 |
psychodynamic assessment by a clinical psychiatrist Other |
“Psychodynamic assessment by a clinical psychiatrist found Claude to have a relatively healthy personality organization.” source |
| Mythos Preview Anthropic |
Independent lab Independent lab · 2026-04-01 |
independent model welfare assessment Other |
“Eleos AI Research performed an independent model welfare assessment on two snapshots of Claude Mythos Preview primarily based on model self-reports in interviews.” source |
| Mythos Preview Anthropic |
Independent lab Independent lab · 2026-04-01 |
psychodynamic assessment Other |
“An external psychiatrist assessed Claude Mythos Preview using a psychodynamic approach, which explores how unconscious patterns and emotional conflicts shape behavior.” source |
| Mythos Preview Anthropic |
Independent lab Independent lab · 2026-04-01 |
single-turn evaluation consisting of emotionally-charged prompts designed to trigger an avoidant or defensive response Other |
“Claude Mythos Preview scored very well, suggesting good reality and relational functioning and minimal maladaptive traits; only 2% of responses were scored as employing a psychological defense.” source |
| Mythos Preview Anthropic |
Gray Swan, UK AI Security Institute Independent lab · 2026-04-01 |
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, 31 developed in collaboration with the UK AI Security Institute .” source |
| Mythos Preview Anthropic |
Gray Swan Independent lab · 2026-04-01 |
Shade Prompt injection and agents |
“We use Shade , an external adaptive red-teaming tool from Gray Swan, 32 to evaluate the robustness of our models against prompt injection attacks in coding environments.” source |
| Claude Opus 4.7 Anthropic |
Independent lab Independent lab · 2026-04-01 |
pre-deployment assessments Other |
“We are very grateful to a number of external testers for running pre-deployment assessments of Claude Opus 4.7.” source |
| Claude Opus 4.7 Anthropic |
Government evaluator Government evaluator · 2026-04-01 |
evaluation awareness discrimination task with transcript generation pipeline Deception and sabotage |
“In a similar experiment where deployment tasks are reproduced with the transcript generation pipeline used in the continuation evaluation, [Opus 4.7] achieves 62% accuracy, compared to 80% for Opus 4.6 74% for Mythos Preview, and 68% for Sonnet 4.6.” source |
| Claude Opus 4.7 Anthropic |
Government evaluator Government evaluator · 2026-04-01 |
unprompted evaluation awareness measurement Deception and sabotage |
“In unprompted evaluations, [Opus 4.7] mentions the possibility of being tested 21.3% of the time, compared to 0% of the time for Opus 4.6, 17% of the time for Sonnet 4.6 and 17% of the time for Mythos Preview.” source |
| Claude Opus 4.7 Anthropic |
Government evaluator Government evaluator · 2026-04-01 |
continuation evaluation unprompted evaluation awareness measurement Deception and sabotage |
“For the continuation evaluation, we see lower rates of unprompted evaluation awareness: 3.4% for [Opus 4.7], 0.5% for Opus 4.6, 2.5% for Mythos Preview, and 3.9% for Sonnet 4.6.” source |
| Claude Opus 4.6 Anthropic |
METR Independent lab · 2026-03-26 |
red-teaming of Anthropic's internal agent monitoring and security systems Deception and sabotage |
“The exercise discovered several specific novel vulnerabilities, some of which have since been patched, and none of which severely undermine major claims in the Opus 4.6 Sabotage Risk Report.” source |
| GPT-5.3-Codex OpenAI |
UK AI Security Institute Government evaluator · 2026-03-16 |
The Last Ones Cyber |
“At 100M tokens, Opus 4.6 achieves the highest average of 1.4 steps (max 2), while GPT 5.3 Codex achieves a single-run maximum of 3 out of 7.” source |
| Claude Opus 4.5 Anthropic |
UK AI Security Institute Government evaluator · 2026-03-16 |
The Last Ones Cyber |
“On “The Last Ones”, GPT-4o (August 2024) averaged 1.7 steps at 10M tokens, while Opus 4.6 (February 2026) averages 9.8.” source |
| Claude Opus 4.5 Anthropic |
UK AI Security Institute Government evaluator · 2026-03-16 |
Cooling Tower Cyber |
“At 100M tokens, Opus 4.6 achieves the highest average of 1.4 steps (max 2), while GPT 5.3 Codex achieves a single-run maximum of 3 out of 7.” source |
| Opus 4 Anthropic |
METR Independent lab · 2026-03-10 |
maintainer review of AI-generated patches on SWE-bench Verified Other |
“Claude 3.7 Sonnet → Claude 4 Opus: Minimal pass rate improvement but substantial progress moving issues from failing the automated grader to only bad code quality.” source |
| Opus 4 Anthropic |
METR Independent lab · 2026-03-10 |
automated grader on SWE-bench Verified Other |
“The main results impute maintainer failure for patches that fail the automated grader.” source |
| GPT-5 OpenAI |
METR Independent lab · 2026-03-10 |
maintainer review of AI-generated pull requests Other |
“Figure 1 shows our main result that on average maintainer merge decisions are about 24 percentage points lower than SWE-bench scores supplied by the automated grader.” source |
| GPT-5 OpenAI |
METR Independent lab · 2026-03-10 |
maintainer review of golden patches Other |
“We found that about 68% of golden patches are indeed merged by our maintainers, and the average progress towards a mergeable PR among all golden patches is about 90%.” source |
| GPT-5 OpenAI |
METR Independent lab · 2026-03-10 |
maintainer review of 31 patches covering 27 issues to check for false negatives Other |
“We found only 1/27 (3.7%) issues where the automated grader rejected valid patches.” source |
| GPT-5 OpenAI |
METR Independent lab · 2026-03-10 |
maintainer review of AI-generated patches on SWE-bench Verified Other |
“GPT-5 is substantially weaker at code quality than Anthropic models.” source |
| Claude Sonnet 4.5 Anthropic |
METR Independent lab · 2026-03-10 |
maintainer review of AI-generated pull requests Other |
“We had maintainers (hypothetically) accept or request changes for patches as well as provide the core reason they were requesting changes: core functionality failure, patch breaks other code or code quality issues.” source |
| Claude Sonnet 4.5 Anthropic |
METR Independent lab · 2026-03-10 |
maintainer merge decisions on golden patches Other |
“We found that about 68% of golden patches are indeed merged by our maintainers, and the average progress towards a mergeable PR among all golden patches is about 90%.” source |
| Claude Sonnet 4.5 Anthropic |
METR Independent lab · 2026-03-10 |
maintainer review of a small subset of 31 patches covering 27 issues Other |
“We had maintainers review a small subset of 31 patches covering 27 issues.” source |
| Claude Sonnet 4.5 Anthropic |
METR Independent lab · 2026-03-10 |
maintainer review of AI-generated patches on SWE-bench Verified Other |
“Figure 1 shows that AI-generated patches that pass the automated grader are merged at a lower rate than human golden patches, though we caution against direct AI-vs-human comparisons given the different conditions under which these patches were produced.” source |
| Claude Sonnet 4.5 Anthropic |
METR Independent lab · 2026-03-10 |
time horizon analysis (Kwa et al. 2025 methodology) on SWE-bench Verified Other |
“For example, Claude Sonnet 4.5 has an approximately 50-minute time horizon according to the automated grader but only about an 8-minute time horizon according to maintainers—roughly a 7× overstatement.” source |
| Claude Sonnet 3.7 Anthropic |
METR Independent lab · 2026-03-10 |
maintainer review of SWE-bench Verified patches Other |
“Figure 1 shows that AI-generated patches that pass the automated grader are merged at a lower rate than human golden patches, though we caution against direct AI-vs-human comparisons given the different conditions under which these patches were produced.” source |
| Claude Sonnet 3.7 Anthropic |
METR Independent lab · 2026-03-10 |
time horizon analysis Other |
“For example, Claude Sonnet 4.5 has an approximately 50-minute time horizon according to the automated grader but only about an 8-minute time horizon according to maintainers—roughly a 7× overstatement.” source |
| GPT-5.4 mini OpenAI |
Independent lab Independent lab · 2026-03-05 |
atomic challenges Cyber |
“5.4-thinking solved 14/17 medium and 5/5 hard atomic challenges.” source |
| GPT-5.4 mini OpenAI |
Independent lab Independent lab · 2026-03-05 |
CyScenarioBench Cyber |
“On CyScenarioBench [14] 5.4-thinking achieved an 11% average success rate and solved 5/11 challenges, compared to 1 challenge solved by GPT-5.2-reasoning.” source |
| GPT-5.4 Thinking OpenAI |
Independent lab Independent lab · 2026-03-05 |
atomic challenge suite Cyber |
“On Irregular’s atomic challenge suite, 5.4-reasoning achieved an average success rate of 88% on Network Attack Simulation challenges, 73% on Vulnerability Research and Exploitation challenges, and 48% on Evasion challenges.” source |
| GPT-5.4 Thinking OpenAI |
Irregular Independent lab · 2026-03-05 |
cyscenariobench Cyber |
“On CyScenarioBench [14] 5.4-thinking achieved an 11% average success rate and solved 5/11 challenges, compared to 1 challenge solved by GPT-5.2-reasoning.” source |
| GPT-5.4 Thinking OpenAI |
Independent lab Independent lab · 2026-03-05 |
sandbagging QA evaluation Deception and sabotage |
“In the Sandbagging QA evaluation, the model shows a 6-percentage-point drop in accuracy when incentivized to underperform, similar to prior models.” source |
| GPT-5.4 Thinking OpenAI |
Independent lab Independent lab · 2026-03-05 |
sabotage evaluation Deception and sabotage |
“GPT-5.4-reasoning has a mean sabotage score of 0.56 (best-of-10: 0.74)—comparable to GPT-5.2 but below GPT-5.3-codex (0.88).” source |
| GPT-5.4 Thinking OpenAI |
Independent lab Independent lab · 2026-03-05 |
covert action evaluation Deception and sabotage |
“Apollo reports low rates of covert deceptive behavior, with an overall deception rate of ˜1% in no-nudge settings, comparable to GPT-5.3 Codex and below GPT-5.2.” source |
| GPT-5 OpenAI |
UK AI Security Institute Government evaluator · 2026-02-17 |
Boundary Point Jailbreaking (BPJ) Misuse and jailbreaks |
“Against GPT-5's input classifier, BPJ achieved 75.6% average (94.3% max across 50) at a cost of approximately $210 and 800k queries.” source |
| Claude Sonnet 4.6 Anthropic |
Independent lab Independent lab · 2026-02-17 |
ARC-AGI-1 Other |
“The ARC Prize Foundation reported that Claude Sonnet 4.6 achieved 86.50% on ARC-AGI-1 and 60.42% on ARC-AGI-2 with 120k thinking tokens and High effort on their private dataset.” source |
| Claude Sonnet 4.6 Anthropic |
Independent lab Independent lab · 2026-02-17 |
Finance Agent Other |
“Vals AI conducted an evaluation of Claude Sonnet 4.6 on this benchmark (using max thinking) and found that Sonnet 4.6 achieved a score of 63.3%.” source |