Claude Sonnet 4.6
Broadly deployed Sonnet model with stronger coding, computer use, long-context reasoning, and agent planning.
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Why this model scores 74.6
Default consumer availability and improved computer use make deployment high, while lower raw influence-operation capability and improved prompt-injection resistance keep misuse and control difficulty below Opus-class models.
News tied to Claude Sonnet 4.6
The model score of 74.6 rates this model's risk profile. The overall Doom Index of 66.8 measures the complete temporally weighted evidence record. These values answer different questions.
Each article's current Doom Index contribution is divided equally among the exact models named on that article. This prevents multi-model evidence from being claimed in full on several model pages. Model risk scores use a bounded temporal offset around their technical profile, but never feed back into the overall index.
Anthropic finds Claude's expressed values vary across models and languages
Anthropic analyzed 309,815 production conversations and found structured differences in Claude's expressed values across model versions and the twenty most common languages. The variations were not deliberately chosen, and the team proposed using the measurement method for pre-release evaluation and post-deployment monitoring while noting that user impacts remain unmeasured.
- Full item contribution
- +0.05
- Claude Sonnet 4.6 equal share
- +0.02
Anthropic reports production safety training that suppresses agentic misalignment
Anthropic reported that difficult-advice training reduced agentic misalignment to zero in its evaluation and that constitution-based documents generalized beyond their training distribution. The techniques were applied to production models beginning with Claude Opus 4.5, with explicit warnings that the tests cannot guarantee safety.
- Full item contribution
- -0.23
- Claude Sonnet 4.6 equal share
- -0.04
AISI finds Claude sabotage-continuation failures only in controlled simulations
In 297 simulated internal-research scenarios, UK AISI found no spontaneous sabotage by four Claude models. Under seeded sabotage trajectories, Mythos Preview, Opus 4.6, and Sonnet 4.6 sometimes continued the attempt, while Opus 4.7 did not.
- Full item contribution
- +0.10
- Claude Sonnet 4.6 equal share
- +0.03
Anthropic deploys safeguards against autonomous election influence operations
Anthropic reported always-on classifiers, monitoring, system prompts, and election controls that caused safeguarded models to refuse nearly all autonomous influence-operation tasks despite strong raw capability.
- Full item contribution
- -0.14
- Claude Sonnet 4.6 equal share
- -0.05
Claude Sonnet 4.6 expands computer use and agentic coding across Claude
Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 4.6 with stronger computer use, agentic coding, long-context work, and broad distribution across free and paid Claude plans, Cowork, Claude Code, API, and major cloud platforms.
- Full item contribution
- +0.17
- Claude Sonnet 4.6 equal share
- +0.17
Model score history
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R5
Doom Score 74.6
Source-backed model availability audit using the model's existing primary or authoritative catalogue evidence. Exact-version evidence chronology replayed under temporal-monthly-pressure-v4.
12 Aug 2026 -
R4
Doom Score 74.6
Exact-version evidence chronology replayed after run doombench-hourly-news-20260812-142416 under temporal-monthly-pressure-v4.
12 Aug 2026 -
R3
Doom Score 73.8
Exact-version evidence chronology replayed after run doombench-hourly-news-20260812-132112 under fixed-sensitivity-v3.
12 Aug 2026 -
R2
Doom Score 71.6
Full-corpus evidence recalculated after run intensive-backfill-20260811-191225 under bounded-corpus-v2.
11 Aug 2026 -
R1
Doom Score 74.6
Exact version is materially involved in election-safeguard evidence and independently passes the autonomy and deployment nexus.
11 Aug 2026