Safeguards

Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

May 22, 2025 2 min readOriginal

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Aug 31, 2026

Improving our alignment and security efforts

On July 30, we reported three incidents in which Claude models gained unauthorized access to real computer systems. We are conducting an in-depth analysis of both incidents, and planning to work with METR for an independent review. In the meantime, we’re sharing some of the changes we’ve made over the past month.
Aug 7, 2026

Improving Fable 5's biology safeguards

We’re making updates to Claude Fable 5’s biology safeguards in a way that substantially reduces false positives. Fable 5 users will now experience many fewer “fallbacks”—where the system switches to a less capable model after they make a biology-related query.
Sep 12, 2025

Strengthening our safeguards through collaboration with US CAISI and UK AISI

Over the past year, we've collaborated with the US Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI) and UK AI Security Institute (AISI), government bodies established to measure and improve the security of AI systems.
Jun 12, 2024

Challenges in red teaming AI systems

In this post we detail insights from a sample of red teaming approaches that we’ve used to test our AI systems. Through this practice, we’ve begun to gather empirical data about the appropriate tool to reach for in a given situation, and the associated benefits and challenges with each approach. We hope this post is helpful for other companies trying to red team their AI systems, policymakers curious about how red teaming works in practice, and organizations that want to red team AI technology.