Claude Opus 4.5: Model Card, Alignment and Safety

Don't Worry About the Vase Podcast · Nov 28, 2025 · 1h 13m

Podcast episode for Claude Opus 4.5: Model Card, Alignment and Safety.

* 00:00:00 - Introduction

* 00:01:50 - Claude Opus 4.5 Basic Facts

* 00:03:26 - Claude Opus 4.5 Is The Best Model For Many But Not All Use Cases

* 00:06:02 - Misaligned?

* 00:09:39 - Section 3: Safeguards and Harmlessness

* 00:11:46 - Section 4: Honesty

* 00:13:27 - 5: Agentic Safety

* 00:21:01 - Section 6: Alignment Overview

* 00:29:55 - Alignment Investigations

* 00:30:35 - Sycophancy Course Correction Is Lacking

* 00:31:52 - Deception

* 00:34:29 - Ruling Out Encoded Content In Chain Of Thought

* 00:37:19 - Sandbagging

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