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The best grade was a C+.

Three labs got an F. The best existential-safety grade was a D+, and nobody reached a C. And the labs that used to promise to stop at red lines? They rewrote the red lines.

“Every frontier AI lab scores C+ or below on the FLI AI Safety Index; no company passes on existential safety.”

Future of Life Institute (official AI Safety Index, Summer 2026)

Recorded 18 August 2026. Our ruling means: we tried to break it and could not.

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The evidence file for this verdict

5 receipts: 4 support the claim, 0 contradict it, 1 add context. 4 figures on the record, 0 traced to a quoted receipt.

The receipts

Each source, the line we quote from it, its date and which way it cuts. Free to read and to cite.

  1. 1Supports the claimfutureoflife.org ↗

    No company exceeds C-; most score D or below.

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  2. 2Supports the claimfutureoflife.org ↗

    Anthropic, OpenAI, Google DeepMind, and Meta have weakened or voided pledges to pause unilaterally.

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  3. 3Supports the claimfutureoflife.org ↗

    Companies previously banned military applications gradually reversed course.

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  4. 4Contextdigitalapplied.com ↗

    A C+ does not mean Anthropic's systems are safe to use in all contexts.

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  5. 5Supports the claimen.sedaily.com ↗

    Companies are backing away from the red line commitments they previously made.

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