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Although measuring the success of alignment research is enormously challenging, researchers (at Anthropic and elsewhere) have developed benchmarks and automated auditing tools, such as Petri , that quantify common alignment failures, like deception, sycophancy, and jailbreaks. In one of our earlier experiments , we tasked Claude with finding effective ways to use weak AI models as “teachers” to supervise the training of stronger models (in this case, the “student” model). Now, we’re releasing a new report that builds on this idea. We had Claude autonomously train models to improve their performance on several public benchmarks that measure each of 10 categories of alignment failure. For instance, Claude improved models’ performance on privacy violation, measured by ConfAIde , PrivaCI-Bench , and PrivacyLens . 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Executive summary This system card reports results from a wide variety of pre-deployment evaluations run on Claude Opus 4.8. It includes the following sections: Responsible Scaling Policy evaluations. We ran a set of evaluations under our Responsible Scaling Policy that assessed Opus 4.8’s capabilities in the areas of chemical and biological weapons, automated AI research and development (R&D), and high-stakes misalignment risks. Our overall conclusion is that Opus 4.8 does not advance the capability frontier beyond our most capable model (Claude Mythos Preview), and that catastrophic risks from the deployment of this model remain low given our current mitigations. Cyber evaluations. We tested the model on a set of cybersecurity benchmarks, some of which we used for the first time in a system card. When operating without safeguards, Opus 4.8 is somewhat more capable on most of our cyber evaluations than its predecessor, Claude Opus 4.7; with safeguards it performs comparably. 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Luckily, many alignment failures, such as deception, sycophancy, and jailbreaks, are already measurable by public benchmarks. We study whether automated alignment researchers (AARs) can post-train to mitigate alignment failures by proposing training methods and data to simultaneously optimize multiple safety benchmarks, while preserving general capability. Across 10 alignment failures, the strongest AAR methods significantly reduce the targeted alignment failures and generalize to a held-out benchmark, multi-turn behavioral audits, and models up to 4\\*. _7_ ×\\\\* larger than the target model. As a human baseline, 28 experienced researchers receive up to eight hours to develop methods for the same benchmarks, but their methods underperform the best AAR methods. 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