We reviewed a nonpublic version of the “Misalignment in high-stakes settings” section in Anthropic’s Aug 2026 Risk Report. We agree that risk of catastrophic harm from covered models’ misalignment is low. However, we note several significant disagreements with their analysis.
METR reviews Anthropic's risk report, agrees on low harm but disputes analysis
AIMETR reviewed a nonpublic version of the "Misalignment in high-stakes settings" section of Anthropic's August 2026 Risk Report. METR agrees the risk of catastrophic harm from covered models' misalignment is low.
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Original title: We reviewed a nonpublic version of the “Misalignment in high-stakes settings” section in Anthropic’s Aug 2026 Risk Report. We agree that ...