Safety · Concept
Harmonized Frontier AI Safety Thresholds
Methodology to derive comparable company safety thresholds for cyber, biological misuse, and automated AI R&D risk.
Forecast horizon
Could reduce race-to-the-bottom if adopted across frontier labs.
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Dual-Use AI Capabilities and Bioterrorism Risk Harmonized threshold methodology explicitly covers biological misuse risk domains used in frontier evaluations.
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Dual-Use AI Capabilities and Bioterrorism Risk Harmonized thresholds explicitly cover biological misuse risk channels and release conditions.
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arXiv AI Safety Feed arXiv safety cluster includes the harmonizing AI safety thresholds paper.
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US evaluation centre Jun 2025
In June 2025 the US AI Safety Institute was renamed the Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI), pivoting toward security, standards and adversary-model assessment.
NIST → Frontier safeguards May 2025
Anthropic activated its ASL-3 deployment and security standard with Claude Opus 4 on 22 May 2025 — the first real-world trigger of a responsible-scaling tier, focused on blocking bio-weapon uplift.
Anthropic → Cross-border testing 2025
The International Network of AI Safety Institutes (launched Nov 2024) ran a third joint testing exercise focused on agentic AI systems across cyber and fraud strands.
European Commission — AI Office →