Claude Opus 4.8: The System Card

The Don’t Worry About the Vase Podcast is a listener-supported podcast. To receive new posts and support the cost of creation, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.* 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 Nowhttps://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/claude-opus-48-is-honestly-better?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe