Tracker

CR-K32

Emerging

Frontier models may give meaningful bio/chem uplift to novices; developers added safeguards because they could not exclude it.

Claim made
Who
International AI Safety Report 2026
Target date
—
Status checked
28 September 2026

Source

Evidence to date

22 May 2025: Anthropic activated ASL-3 protections for Claude Opus 4 as a precaution (Anthropic [S]). No public evidence found of an AI-enabled bio/chem attack.

Next indicator

System cards; independent evaluations