Risk report: Anthropic raises misalignment risk estimate from very low to low and says it doesn't plan to release a stronger internal model called "Model 2"
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Anthropic publicly moving misalignment risk from “very low” to “low” and shelving a stronger internal Model 2 puts a concrete tradeoff on the table: capability versus deployment risk. For enterprises, this is a cue to start asking vendors explicit questions about withheld models, evals, and how risk thresholds map to your own governance.
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