Anthropic Publishes August 2026 Risk Report Under Responsible Scaling Policy
Anthropic released its August 2026 Risk report, evaluating catastrophic risks from its AI systems across several categories, considering both capabilities and mitigation measures. The report is part of the implementation of version 3.4 of its Responsible Scaling Policy and complements system cards by providing broader analysis, with plans to publish every 3–6 months.
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# 1 Introduction and executive summary This report evaluates the degree to which Anthropic’s AI systems pose catastrophic risk in several categories, in light of what we know about both their capabilities and the measures we have in place for mitigating risk. We focus on a small number of particularly salient catastrophic risks, for reasons discussed below . This report is part of our implementation of version 3.4 of our Responsible Scaling Policy (see also our Frontier Safety Roadmap , which describes our goals and speci fi c plans for safety mitigations). Our system cards , which are published each time we release a model, provide analysis on some dimensions of risk—in particular, assessing our AI models for capabilities that may have dangerous as well as bene fi cial uses. This report, which we aim to publish every 3–6 months (see the RSP for timing details), goes beyond the analysis presented in those documents in several ways: 1. We discuss not only properties of our AI models tha