Anthropic loosens Claude Fable 5's biology safety classifiers, cutting false-positive blocks 85%

Anthropic

Research official 1 src. ~1 min

Anthropic rewrote the biology safety classifiers gating Claude Fable 5, reducing unnecessary fallbacks to the less-capable Opus 5 model by about 85% while continuing to block dual-use requests in virology, toxicology, and molecular design.

Why it matters

Shows Anthropic tuning the trade-off between frontier biological capability and misuse risk, a live policy question for any lab shipping models with potential biosecurity uplift.

Importance: 2/5

Notable safety-policy update from a frontier lab; single official source, no independent corroboration.

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