Claude Opus 4.8: The System Card

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* 00:00 - Introduction

* 01:15 - Table of Contents

* 02:32 - Here We Go Again: Executive Summary

* 03:58 - Introduction (1)

* 04:03 - RSP Evaluations (2)

* 05:11 - Move That Goalpost

* 07:11 - The Failures Are News

* 09:21 - Alignment Risk Slowly Rises

* 10:52 - New Risk Pathways Just Dropped

* 13:28 - Cyber (3)

* 14:27 - Harmful Requests (4.1)

* 16:46 - We Need To Talk (4.2 and 4.3)

* 19:56 - Overcoming Bias (4.4)

* 21:59 - Agentic Safety (5)

* 24:38 - Prompt Injection (5.2)

* 31:08 - Alignment (6)

* 32:23 - Looking For Problems

* 33:54 - Who Watches The Training (6.2.2)

* 38:02 - Automated Behavioral Audit

* 38:39 - The Model Is Smarter Than The Eval (6.2.3.2)

* 40:48 - You Should See The Other Guy

* 43:12 - UK AISI Testing (6.2.4)

* 43:32 - In Vendbench (6.2.5)

* 46:10 - Honesty (6.3.3 to 6.3.6)

* 49:00 - Chain of Thought (CoT) Monitorability (6.5)

* 51:46 - What’s In The Box? (6.6)

* 54:01 - That’s All For Now

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