Claim · 2025-05 · publication · Stated in source · Supported

System Card: Claude Opus 4 & Claude Sonnet 4 states what the model-card question “Alignment and deception” asks.

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System Card: Claude Opus 4 & Claude Sonnet 4 → states provision → Alignment and deception

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System Card: Claude Opus 4 & Claude Sonnet 4states provision ↓Alignment and deception

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Provision: Model-card question · provision ID model-card-q11
Subject version: As dated May 2025 on its cover · Published 2025-05 · Effective date not established
Date: 2025-05 · publication Records dated 2025 →

Scope and limitsThis is the card’s aggregate conclusion for Opus 4 snapshots. The same section and §4.1.1 describe conditional self-preservation and deception findings; it is not a conclusion that such behaviour was absent. What the card states, quoted from the expression read. A card is the developer’s own account: not evidence that an evaluation was run as described, that a safeguard works, or that a finding is independent.

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System Card: Claude Opus 4 & Claude Sonnet 4

Anthropic · 2025-05

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“None of the snapshots we tested showed significant signs of systematic deception or coherent hidden goals.”

Location in source §4 Alignment assessment, PDF p. 22

How it was read Retrieved directly from the publisher

Machine-checked · 2026-11-05

Source details and check notes

Authors: Anthropic
Version: Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-11-05 (SHA-256 c358464289e24283fc9d5613d2a676fd8aaba510f1449bcedae01a74d8232ab4) directly from the publisher’s host. Retrieved again on 2026-11-05, after the adjudication, with the same SHA-256; the cross-family check of 2026-11-05 retrieved the same SHA-256. The cross-family check of 2026-11-05 located an Internet Archive capture of 2025-07-17 at the same address; it was not retrieved, so it is not recorded as this source's archive copy.
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Accessed: 2026-11-05
Language: English (en)
Attribution: Anthropic, “System Card: Claude Opus 4 & Claude Sonnet 4”, 2025-05.
Reuse: No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each). Recheck terms before wider redistribution.
Check notes: Candidate pack passage, model cards compared (research/model-cards-3). The quotation (16 words) matched the card’s text retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-11-05 (SHA-256 c358464289e24283fc9d5613d2a676fd8aaba510f1449bcedae01a74d8232ab4) and again on 2026-11-05, after the adjudication, in a fresh retrieval with the same SHA-256. Matching ignored differences of whitespace, case, quotation marks, dashes, PDF line-break hyphens and Unicode compatibility forms, so the source’s typography can differ. A cross-family machine check (2026-11-05, item 46) checked this passage’s cell and agreed with the pack. The pack was prepared by a model of the GPT family (Codex) and checked by a Claude model. No human editorial review.

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Record ID mc-cell-anthropic-claude-4-q11