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Anthropic’s own account of the decision is unusually candid about uncertainty: the company states that “clearly ruling out ASL-3 risks is not possible for Claude Opus 4” given the model’s improved capabilities in domains related to chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear weapons, and frames the activation as “a precautionary and provisional action” rather than a confirmed finding that the model crosses the threshold [ 16 ] . The ASL-3 Security Standard is described as more than one hundred individual safeguards intended to make model-weight theft harder, including controls restricting data leaving secured environments; the corresponding Deployment Standard is described as narrowly targeted at reducing misuse for weapons-related uplift, rather than a general behavioral restriction [ 16 ] . In terms of the conditional stated in the RSP section above, this is the first publicly documented instance in this history of S $\ge$ $S_k$ actually being invoked above the default level for a specific shipped model, rather than the policy operating only as a stated intention.