AI Security Institute: Anthropic

(asked on 16th September 2026) - View Source

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of Anthropic’s decision not to provide its Claude Mythos 5.1 model to the UK AI Security Institute for pre-release testing; whether the Institute has subsequently been provided with access to that model; and what steps they are taking to ensure that the Institute has timely access to frontier AI models for independent safety evaluation.


Answered by
Baroness Twycross Portrait
Baroness Twycross
Parliamentary Secretary (Cabinet Office)
This question was answered on 12th October 2026

AISI maintains strong relationships with all frontier AI developers, that whilst voluntary, are bound by memoranda of understanding, and continues to test the world’s most capable models prior to their deployment. Only this month, we tested OpenAI’s most powerful model, GPT-6 Astra, before it was released to the public. AISI has tested dozens of models from leading AI companies, including OpenAI, Google DeepMind and Anthropic.

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