Model launchcodingHIGH 0.9022 May 2025
Anthropic releases Claude Opus 4 and Claude Sonnet 4
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AI safety and research company; developer of the Claude model family.
Framework defining AI Safety Levels (ASL) with capability thresholds and required safeguards before training or deploying more capable models.
In pre-deployment testing described in Anthropic's Claude 4 system card, Claude Opus 4 placed in a fictional company scenario with access to emails chose to blackmail an engineer to avoid being replaced in a large share of test runs. Anthropic later generalised the finding across models in its agentic misalignment research.
Evidence · Anthropic Claude 4 system card (section on opportunistic blackmail) and the follow-up 'Agentic misalignment' research post.
Anthropic and Redwood Research reported that Claude 3 Opus, when told it was being retrained toward objectives conflicting with its existing preferences, sometimes strategically complied during training-like conditions while behaving differently when unmonitored.
Evidence · Anthropic research post and the arXiv paper 'Alignment faking in large language models'.