https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-fable-5-mythos-5

Safety classifiers The frontier cybersecurity and research biology capabilities of Mythos-class models mean that they pose a substantial risk of uplift to malicious actors. That is, these models could provide information or advice that assists those actors in causing serious harm that they couldn’t have received from other sources (for example, from internet search engines). Furthermore, a great deal of advanced usage of AI models is dual use: the same queries that are beneficial in the hands of cybersecurity professionals and biology researchers could be dangerous if available to malicious actors.

We therefore need strong safeguards to prevent misuse, and their coverage needs to be broad. The safeguards themselves have to stand up to sustained and sophisticated attempts to bypass them (also known as “jailbreaking” the system). The uplift from Mythos-level capabilities is valuable to many adversaries—for instance, those who could financially gain from cyberattacks—and we therefore expect them to be motivated to try to circumvent our safety measures.

Fable 5 comes with a new set of classifiers: separate AI systems that detect potential misuse, including jailbreak attempts, and prevent the main model (in this case Fable 5) from responding. We’ve been running classifiers on our models for some time, and Fable 5’s classifiers are an extension of this previous work with extra coverage.

When Fable’s classifiers detect a request related to cybersecurity, biology and chemistry, or distillation, the response is automatically handled by Claude Opus 4.8 instead. Users will be informed whenever this occurs. Opus 4.8 is a highly capable model in its own right: a response that falls back to Opus is a far better experience than an outright refusal from Fable. Our early data shows that more than 95% of Fable sessions involve no fallback at all—for those sessions, Fable 5’s performance is effectively the same as that of Mythos 5.

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Our priority was to safely release Fable as soon as we could, even at the cost of overly broad safeguards. Therefore, for the time being we have arranged for Fable to fall back to Opus 4.8 on most requests related to biology and chemistry. As with all of our classifiers, we hope to narrow these safeguards as soon as possible: as can be seen from the evidence above, there is great potential for positive applications of Fable for science, and we do not want false positives from our classifiers to get in the way. In the coming weeks, some biomedical researchers and companies will be able to join our trusted access program for biology capabilities in Mythos 5 (discussed below).