Anthropic Raises Misalignment Risk to Low and Shelves Internal Model 2
Anthropic published its second company-wide Risk Report on August 14, 2026, and the headline change is a one-word upgrade in the wrong direction: the company now rates the risk of catastrophic harm from misalignment in high-stakes settings as “low,” up from the “very low” it assigned in its first report in February 2026. The same…