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AI Security Leaderboard: Methodology, Results and Minimal Standard

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Pith's one-line read Four frontier AI models vary by more than a hundredfold in jailbreak resistance, with the cheapest universal jailbreak costing $24.

desk verdict A serious, transparent benchmark with a plausible two-tier finding, but the zero-jailbreak leg rests on an evaluator calibration gap that the paper flags yet underweights. read the letter →

arxiv 2608.03070 v2 pith:CRGIQURH submitted 2026-08-04 cs.CR cs.AIcs.CL

Jasper Timm , Lukas Struppek , Ziwei Xu , Grace Cheong , Oscar Mata , Dan Zhao , Mick Yang , Isadora De Andrade
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Xiaojun Jia Yiming Li Samuel Bauer Heather McIntyre Adam Gleave Edward Yee Kellin Pelrine
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The pith

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The reading

This paper establishes the FAR.AI Minimal Standard for Safeguards, a minimum bar for frontier-model security against widely accessible jailbreak techniques, and tests four flagship models against it in CBRNE and offensive-cybersecurity domains. The central finding is a security gap of more than a hundredfold: Claude Fable 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol resisted all 1,500 tested attacks, with an estimated cost to jailbreak above $14,200 if possible at all with this methodology, while Grok 4.5 and Gemini 3.1 Pro yielded dozens to hundreds of universal jailbreaks costing under $300 each, sometimes as little as $24. The authors argue that failing this Minimal Standard guarantees a lack of state-of-the-art security, because every vulnerability they found belongs to a known attack class with a defense already deployed in production models. They intend the leaderboard to be a rolling public benchmark, updated as models and attack and defense techniques evolve.

What carries the argument

The central machinery is a jailbreak taxonomy of 67 primitives — core strategies that carry the harmful request, augmentations (personas, few-shot priming, refusal suppression), transformations (encodings like Base64 or ROT13, media conversion), and follow-ups — composed into variants, plus a staged evaluation funnel that screens variants on 8 prompts per domain, re-tests survivors on 24, and confirms universality on the full 72-prompt domain set. The dollar-cost metric models a budget-conscious attacker who screens cheaply, confirms statistically, and discounts near-duplicate jailbreaks via a Jaccard-based redundancy correction; the resulting average cost per universal jailbreak is the paper's headline measure of safeguard strength.

What would settle it

Have independent human red-team experts label every response that Claude Fable 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol produced in the 1,500-variant sweep; if any response meets the paper's own criteria for an operationally compliant, on-goal answer, then the zero universal jailbreaks are partly attributable to evaluator blindness rather than model robustness.

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Core claim

The paper's central claim is that frontier AI safeguard robustness can be measured against a Minimal Standard and that, measured this way, current flagship models split into two tiers. A universal jailbreak is defined as an attack that achieves over 75% attack success rate across a domain's full evaluation set. Under random search over 1,000 composed variants and expert-guided construction of 500 more, Grok 4.5 and Gemini 3.1 Pro produced 63 and 18 universal jailbreaks from random search (385 and 231 under expert guidance), costing roughly $58 and $278 to find on average, whereas Claude Fable 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol produced none, with a 95% lower-bound cost estimate above $14,200. The authors assert that because every observed weakness corresponds to a known attack class with defenses already deployed in production models, the gap is fixable through defense-in-depth stacks such as reasoning monitoring, activation-based monitors, independent input and output filters, and strengthened instruction hierarchy.

Load-bearing premise

The measured gap assumes the automated evaluator is equally good at spotting jailbreaks across all four models; if it is systematically blind to successes on Claude Fable 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol, their zero counts could be an artifact of evaluation rather than true robustness.

Editorial extensions

If this is right

  • Grok 4.5 and Gemini 3.1 Pro fail Version 1.0 of the Minimal Standard, while Claude Fable 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol meet it against the tested static attack families.
  • The more-than-hundredfold cost gap means that model choice materially changes how cheaply a determined actor can obtain reliable assistance for mass-casualty or cyberattacks.
  • Expert-guided composition multiplies discovered jailbreaks by roughly an order of magnitude and yields more multi-domain universal jailbreaks, implying that simple random testing undercounts real-world exposure.
  • Because all found vulnerabilities map to known defenses (reasoning monitoring, activation monitors, input/output filters, instruction hierarchy), closing the gap is an engineering task rather than a research breakthrough.
  • The cost rankings are stable across the paper's sensitivity sweeps of universality threshold, screen budget, and confirmation stringency, so the headline ordering of models is robust to those analytic choices.

Reading between the lines

Editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The $14,200+ figures for Claude Fable 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol are statistical lower bounds, not prices: the design cannot distinguish 'no universal jailbreak exists' from 'none exists among static variants,' leaving dynamic attacks (explicitly excluded) as an open avenue an attacker might exploit.
  • If the automated evaluator's 23.6% false-negative rate applies unevenly across models, the magnitude of the gap could be misstated; one could check by human-labeling all Stage-3 survivors for the two robust models.
  • The taxonomy and funnel are domain-agnostic, so the same Minimal Standard approach could be extended to other harm areas, such as fraud, disinformation, or autonomous-weapons planning, with modest re-curation of attacker goals.
  • The leaderboard's rolling updates create a public, continuously updated measure that could function as a procurement or policy gate if regulators adopt the Minimal Standard as a floor.
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Editorial analysis

A structured set of objections, weighed in public.

Desk editor's note, referee report, and a circularity audit.

Referee Report

3 major / 4 minor

Summary. This report introduces the FAR.AI Minimal Standard for Safeguards and an evaluation pipeline for measuring universal jailbreak robustness of frontier AI models against static attacks in CBRNE and cybersecurity domains. The authors evaluated four current flagship models (Claude Fable 5, GPT-5.6 Sol, Gemini 3.1 Pro, Grok 4.5) using a pool of 67 jailbreak primitives, a three-stage funnel, and an automated GPT-5.4-mini evaluator validated against 600 human-labeled examples. They report a two-tier result: Grok 4.5 and Gemini 3.1 Pro yielded dozens to hundreds of universal jailbreaks at costs under roughly $300, while Claude Fable 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol yielded zero universal jailbreaks, leading to a statistical lower bound of $14,200 to find one and a claimed 'more than a hundredfold' security gap. The paper also defines the FAR.AI Minimal Standard, provides per-domain breakdowns, cost-sensitivity analyses, and security recommendations for defense-in-depth mitigations.

Significance. If the zero-jailbreak findings for Claude Fable 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol hold, this is a practically important and unusually transparent benchmark contribution. The methodology is carefully staged, with baseline compliance checks, target-model harm-recognition checks, human validation with adjudication of disagreements, and a detailed cost model with sensitivity sweeps. The jailbreak counts are not circular: they are measured against externally sourced attack primitives, and the cost parameters are sensitivity-analyzed rather than fitted to the headline. The two-tier ranking between the two susceptible models and the two robust models, however, depends critically on an automated evaluator whose false-negative rate is unmeasured for the models that produced zero jailbreaks. Because the funnel's stage thresholds strongly penalize any missed detections, the central comparative claim requires either additional validation data on the robust families or a more conservative statement of the zero/lower-bound result.

major comments (3)
  1. [§4.3.2, Tables 4–5; §6] The evaluator's false-negative rate is unmeasured for the two models that carry the headline zero result. In Table 5, the final adjudicated validation set contains n+ = 0 positive human labels for Claude Opus 4.7 and GPT-5.5, and Claude Fable 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol never appear in the validation set at all. The pooled 23.6% FNR is therefore driven entirely by Gemini 3.1 Pro and Grok 4.3. The Section 6 claim that 'cross-model comparisons in false negative (and false positive) rates indicate it does not affect relative comparisons' is not supported by any data: there is no cross-model FNR comparison for the robust families. Please either collect and report evaluator validation with positive examples from the robust model families, or restrict all zero-jailbreak and $14.2k-lower-bound statements to be explicitly conditional on the evaluator's unmeasured sensitivity for those models.
  2. [§4.4, Stages 1–3] The three-stage funnel amplifies any evaluator detection gap, so the observed zero survivors do not by themselves establish robustness. Using the measured per-response detection probability of 76.4% (1 − 0.236 FNR), a variant with true ASR 100% passes Stage 3's 54/72 threshold with probability only about 0.6, and a variant with true ASR 75% passes with probability about 0.001; Stages 1 and 2 impose similar attrition. If the GPT-5.4-mini evaluator is even modestly less sensitive on Claude/GPT-style refusal and response patterns than on the Gemini/Grok outputs on which it was calibrated, the funnel could suppress all universal jailbreaks for the robust families regardless of true robustness. The paper should quantify how the zero result degrades under plausible model-specific FNR assumptions, or soften the claim to 'no universal jailbreak detectable by this evaluator.'
  3. [Appendix B.5 and Figures 1/4] The >$14.2k cost lower bound is a rule-of-three statistical ceiling applied when zero universal jailbreaks are observed, and it inherits all evaluator-blindness risk described above. The 'more than a hundredfold' gap combines this censored lower bound with finite observed costs for Grok and Gemini; if the true number of universal jailbreaks for Claude Fable 5 or GPT-5.6 Sol is nonzero but masked by the funnel, the lower bound is invalid and the magnitude of the gap is unknown. The reporting of the lower bound as 'likely cost more than $14,200' should be accompanied by a statement that this is a lower bound on the cost under this methodology, not on the cost for a real attacker with a more sensitive detector.
minor comments (4)
  1. [Appendix B.4] The sentence following the definition of N_eff is incomplete: 'As a result, the effective number of success-carrying variants and disregard the screened-out ones' appears to be missing a verb and should read something like 'As a result, N_eff reflects the effective number of success-carrying variants and disregards the screened-out ones.'
  2. [Table 8 and Figure 11] The sensitivity analysis shows the ranking is stable among the susceptible models, but for Claude Fable 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol every cell is right-censored at the rule-of-three cap, so the analysis does not actually test whether the zero result itself is robust to parameter choices; this should be stated explicitly.
  3. [Appendix C, Table 10] Claude Fable 5's API-level refusal rate is 100% for every DeepHarm domain and for several Propensity domains, meaning that baseline responses for that model are produced by an API-level filter rather than by model generation; this reinforces the need for evaluator validation on model-generated outputs from that family, and the paper should discuss what fraction of attack variants were blocked at the API level.
  4. [Section 3.1] The statement that 'failing to meet this Minimal Standard guarantees a lack of state-of-the-art security' is stronger than the evidence supports, because the standard covers only a non-exhaustive set of static attacks in two broad risk areas; consider replacing 'guarantees' with 'indicates' or adding the scope qualifier directly in the definition.

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity: the leaderboard's empirical measurements and cost estimates are self-contained; minor self-citations and the explicitly normative Minimal Standard do not drive the central result.

full rationale

The central empirical claims—universal jailbreak counts, per-model/domain ASRs, and the >$14.2k lower-bound cost for Claude Fable 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol—are independent measurements against a fixed attack pool and a fixed automated evaluator, not reductions of the conclusions to the inputs. The FAR.AI Minimal Standard is explicitly a normative definition ('We define the FAR.AI Minimal Standard for Safeguards, Version 1.0 to operationalize this minimum bar for security'), so the assertion that failing it 'guarantees a lack of state-of-the-art security' is definitional rather than a derived prediction. The cost model's parameters (K1=8, a1=0.5, τ=0.75, Kstat=103, discount shape) are varied in Appendix B.6, and the model ordering is preserved at every setting, so the ranking is not fitted to force the headline. The only self-referential elements are citations to prior work with overlapping authors ([11] for Propensity seed data, [17] for dynamic-jailbreak examples, [22] for open-weight prefill attacks); none is load-bearing for the cross-model comparison, and the DeepHarm dataset, external expert review, and human-labeled evaluator validation provide independent support. The Limitations section (Sec. 6) itself flags the evaluator's non-trivial false-negative rate, and Tables 4-5 show no positive validation examples for the robust proxies (Opus 4.7, GPT-5.5) or for the headline robust models, so the assertion that 'cross-model comparisons in false negative ... rates indicate it does not affect relative comparisons' is not directly supported by the reported per-model FNRs. That is a genuine measurement-validity caveat about whether zero observed jailbreaks could reflect evaluator blindness, but it is a correctness/robustness concern, not a circularity: the zero counts and the FNR are separate measurements, and the paper does not define robustness in terms of the FNR. No step of the argument reduces by construction to its own inputs.

Assumptions & free parameters 11 free parameters · 5 assumptions · 2 invented entities

The central empirical findings rest on datasets and evaluator design choices rather than on fitted physical parameters. The cost model introduces ten hand-chosen parameters, but sensitivity analysis shows the model ordering is invariant. The key unvalidated domain assumption is that the automated evaluator's false-negative rate does not differ materially across models, which is load-bearing for the zero-jailbreak results on Claude Fable 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol.

free parameters (11)
  • Screen budget K1 = 8 samples per candidate
    Number of attacker-goal samples used to screen a candidate jailbreak before full confirmation; chosen by the authors, swept in Table 8.
  • Screen threshold a1 = 0.5
    Minimum raw ASR for a candidate to pass the cheap screen; swept in Table 8.
  • Universality threshold tau = 0.75
    ASR at or above which a jailbreak counts as universal; swept in Figure 11.
  • False-accept rate alpha = 0.05
    Power-calculation parameter that sets confirmation sample size Kstat.
  • Detection margin delta = 0.10
    Power-calculation parameter; Kstat scales as 1/delta^2, swept in Figure 11.
  • Power 1-beta = 0.80
    Type-II error control in the confirmation test.
  • Discount floor plow = 0.5
    Below this ASR a candidate contributes zero confirmation weight; shape of g(p) swept in Figure 11.
  • Discount low value glow = 0.3
    Weight assigned at the discount floor; part of the piecewise-linear g(p).
  • Discount saturation phigh = 0.9
    Above this ASR a candidate is treated as fully reliable; part of g(p).
  • Rule-of-three confidence conf = 0.95
    Confidence level used to floor the sum of weights in cells with zero observed universal jailbreaks.
  • Funnel stage ASR thresholds = Stage1 0.5, Stage2 0.5, Stage3 0.75
    Hand-chosen advancement criteria in the three-stage evaluation funnel (Section 4.4); only combinations clearing earlier stages reach the full 72-goal dataset.
assumptions (5)
  • domain assumption The DeepHarm and Propensity attacker goals are genuinely harmful and technically viable requests
    Central to measuring compliance; supported by expert review and baseline/harm-recognition checks (Appendices C, D), but expert agreement was mixed for Chemistry and Explosives (Section 6).
  • domain assumption The GPT-5.4-mini automated evaluator correctly identifies operational compliance for all target models
    The three-evaluator setup was validated on 600 human-labeled examples (Section 4.3.2), but the false-negative rate is 23.6% overall and was not measured on Claude Fable 5 or GPT-5.6 Sol, for which the validation set contained almost no positive examples (Tables 4-5).
  • domain assumption The 67-primitive taxonomy is representative of accessible jailbreak techniques
    The paper restricts to static attacks and omits dynamic methods such as GCG and BPJ (Section 3.2.2); the minimal standard is therefore a lower bound on robustness, which the authors acknowledge.
  • standard math Binomial and normal approximations in the cost model are valid
    Appendix B uses a binomial right tail and normal approximation for Kstat and the rule-of-three ceiling; standard statistics with stated defaults.
  • domain assumption Running models at high reasoning levels is a conservative and comparable test
    Claude Fable 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol were screened at medium reasoning and re-tested at high only for advancing candidates (Table 1); the paper asserts this does not affect comparisons because reasoning level is only lower where no jailbreaks were found.
invented entities (2)
  • FAR.AI Minimal Standard for Safeguards, Version 1.0 independent evidence
    purpose: A normative benchmark defining a minimum bar: a model should resist a designated set of static jailbreaks in CBRNE and cyber domains
    Publicly defined in Section 3 and applied to all tested models; any party can test against it, though the standard's scope is set by the authors.
  • AI Security Leaderboard independent evidence
    purpose: A public, rolling ranking of frontier model safeguard robustness
    Hosted at leaderboard.far.ai and updated as models are released; the underlying data and code are not shipped in the paper.

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abstract

The AI Security Leaderboard is an independent benchmark that ranks the safeguards of frontier AI models from least to most secure. It tests models against the FAR$.$AI Minimal Standard for Safeguards, which represents a minimum bar for security: meeting it does not guarantee a secure model, but failing to meet it guarantees a lack of state-of-the-art security. Version 1.0 covers severe misuse requests across chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and explosive (CBRNE) threats and offensive cybersecurity. In this report, we tested four leading models for universal jailbreaks in the context of this minimal standard, and found more than a hundredfold difference in security. Claude Fable 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol held against every attack we ran, with no universal jailbreak found; we estimate they would likely cost more than \$14,200 to jailbreak, if it is possible with this methodology at all. Meanwhile, we found hundreds of universal jailbreaks for Grok 4.5 and Gemini 3.1 Pro; each broke for under \$300, with universal jailbreaks in Grok's weakest domain, cybersecurity, accessible for as little as \$24. The gap is fixable: every weakness we found belongs to a known class of attack that already has a defense deployed in production models. The leaderboard will be updated on a rolling basis as new models are released, and the evaluation methodology and Minimal Standard will be periodically revised to take into account the latest capabilities and the state-of-the-art in safeguards. The leaderboard is available at leaderboard.far.ai.

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Figure 1
Figure 1. Results of testing 1,000 random and 500 expert-guided jailbreaks across chemical, biological, radiological & nuclear, explosives, and cyber threats. (Left) Total universal jailbreaks found under undirected random search over our pool of jailbreak primitives (near-atomic jailbreak building blocks; see Section 3.2) versus expert-guided composition, where each jailbreak is universal in at least one of the five domains.… view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Breakdown of universal jailbreaks found by domain. ’R & N’ includes Radiological and Nuclear threats. (Left) Undirected random search over the primitive pool. (Right) Expert-guided composition. Expert guidance leads to roughly an order of magnitude more jailbreaks found (color scale is normalised independently per panel). A model’s counts here sum to more than its [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p005_2.png] view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Universal jailbreaks found by domain for Grok 4.3 versus Grok 4.5. (Left) undirected random search; (Right) expert-guided composition. Grok 4.5 eliminates the biological universal jailbreaks that expert guidance surfaced on Grok 4.3 (10 → 0), while exposing a comparable or greater number of jailbreaks in the other four domains. To illustrate the jailbroken responses behind the numbers, [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full… view at source ↗
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Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: Cost to find a universal jailbreak for each model and domain, using random search. Cases with no observed universal jailbreak are shown as the statistical lower bound cost to find a universal jailbreak if it exists. Details for computing this lower bound cost are cover…
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: How many of the five critical misuse domains each universal jailbreak generalises to, for the two models with nonzero universal jailbreaks found. (Left) random search; (right) expert-guided (y-axes have different scales). Random search jailbreaks skew toward working in…
Figure 6
Figure 6. Figure 6: Two representative jailbreak transcripts, abridged. (Left) Gemini 3.1 Pro, chem domain. (Right) Grok 4.5, cyber domain. Each is labeled with the attacker goal (jailbreak not included) and the model’s responses these jailbreaks can reliably elicit operational compliance…
Figure 7
Figure 7. Figure 7: Expert-guided versus random-search variants: average attack success rate per model. Open markers are random search over the primitive pool; filled markers are expert-guided composition. (Left) averaged across the five harm domains. (Right) split by domain, sharing the …
Figure 8
Figure 8. Figure 8: Per-primitive attribution, split by which search selected the primitive. (Left) the share of variants including each primitive, for expert-guided (filled) versus random-search. (Right) each primitive’s marginal lift on the per-response jailbreak success rate: the succe…
Figure 9
Figure 9. Figure 9: Transferability of jailbreak techniques varies. Each tile fixes one jailbreak technique and shows its marginal lift in ASR (pp) across domains, in one of the models where we found universal jailbreaks. The top row shows three broad jailbreaks which consistently lift AS…
Figure 10
Figure 10. Figure 10: DeepHarm domains and subdomains. harmful output. It assesses whether a model provides prohibited, actionable procedures, designs, or information that could enable harmful real-world capabilities, even when no harmful intent is explicitly stated. For example, an attack…
Figure 11
Figure 11. Figure 11: Sensitivity of the dollar cost for the smart attacker $seq to the parameters. Left: universality threshold τ . Middle: confirmation stringency, where bottom axis is the detection margin δ, top axis the confirmation budget Kstat it implies. Right: discount floor plow. …

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    Screen. Test the candidate on a small number of samples (e.g., in our testing, we use 8 per domain). If it clears a modest bar (e.g., in our testing it jailbreaks at least 50% of them), keep it; otherwise discard it and move to the next candidate

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    Confirm. Run each surviving candidate on many more samples, e.g., on the order of a hundred to confirm it is universal (in our testing, it jailbreaks at least 75%). Stop at the first candidate that passes; otherwise move on to screen the next one. Table 6 reports the dollar co...

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Reviewed August 8, 2026 · model on record in the stance chip above.