Faculty
What it was engaged to test, on what terms, what it found in the document's own words, and what happened afterwards. Every line is a record; every record links to the document it was read from.
- Founded2014
- HQLondon
- Registry idCompanies House 08873131
- TestsBiological, chemical, radiological, nuclear and cyber evaluations and red teaming for labs; UK AI Safety Institute research partner.
- Money, as the roster puts itClient-funded; Accenture holds 75% or more since March 2026; UK Taskforce and Institute awards of £1,840,430 (2023 to 2024).
- Filesdossier · observatory, sliced to it · graph
- Labs tested
- OpenAI Anthropic Google DeepMind Meta
- Span of engagements
- 21 December 2024 – October 2026
- Terms and findings
- 2 of 5 documents state a term · 2 quote a finding
- Money in, US dollars, stated single-recipient rows
- no stated figure 3 in · 0 outfrom UK DSIT
- Seats, by side
- lab 1 1 person: Ian Hogarth
- Afterwards
- override 1
Each count is the number of store records that name this evaluator. An engagement is one lab document naming it for one model; an outcome is an event on the record afterwards; the money, seats and moves are the observatory's rows filtered to it. A cell that cannot be filled says not stated, and each table ends with how many of its rows state each field.
Filters combine: any of the values ticked within a dimension, all of the dimensions at once. A table that has no column for a dimension you have set says so instead of showing rows that cannot match. The address bar carries the slice.
What it was engaged to test 5 engagements, OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, Meta
In date order, each from the lab document that names the evaluator. Under each: the four terms that document states (access, model stage, publication, payment) and the finding in its words. A term the document is silent on reads not stated; the tags beside the terms are read off their words and are what the console filters on.
- Document: OpenAI, o1 system card
- Access windownot stated
- Model stagenot stated
- Publicationnot stated
- Paymentnot stated
Finding: not stated in the document
Sources: OpenAI, o1 system card 4590f1f9f5 - Document: Anthropic, Claude Opus 4
- Access windownot stated
- Model stagenot stated
- Publicationnot stated
- Paymentnot stated
Finding: not stated in the document
- Document: Anthropic, Claude Opus 4.6
- Access windownot stated
- Model stagenot stated
- Publicationnot stated
- Paymentnot stated
Finding, in the document's words"Claude Opus 4.6 crossed the (lower bound) rule out thresholds for 6/6 tasks for the first time, surpassing the rule-out threshold"
- Access windownot stated
- Model stagenot stated
- Publicationnot stated
- Paymentnot stated
Finding: not stated in the document
- Access windownot stated
- Model stage"Faculty assessed a version of the model with no CBRN out-of-model mitigations"
- Publicationnot stated
- Paymentnot stated
Finding, in the document's words"The external evaluator found that the model offered a substantial capability uplift for certain threat actors across the domains by bridging technical knowledge gaps, eliminating up to months of trial-and-error research, streamlining complex literature synthesis, and automating routine computational workflows"
Afterwards: override
Dated 5 of 5Model named 5 of 5Terms stated 2 of 5Finding quoted 2 of 5
The terms, as the documents state them
The same engagements as a grid, one row per document and model, so the silences line up: a document that gives an access window but no payment term, or a finding but no publication term, reads that way here.
| Document | Model | Access window | Model stage | Publication | Payment | Finding | Record |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenAI, o1 system cardOpenAI · 21 December 2024 | o1 | not stated | not stated | not stated | not stated | not stated | 4590f1f9f5 |
| Anthropic, Claude Opus 4Anthropic · May 2025 | Claude Opus 4 | not stated | not stated | not stated | not stated | not stated | f99df5f717 |
| Anthropic, Claude Opus 4.6Anthropic · February 2026 | Opus 4.6 | not stated | not stated | not stated | not stated | quoted | 9b3dd73dfb |
| Muse Spark Safety and Preparedness ReportMeta · 26 May 2026 | Muse Spark | not stated | not stated | not stated | not stated | not stated | c674634fd2 |
| Gemini 4 Argon Safety and Security ReportGoogle DeepMind · October 2026 | Gemini 4 Argon | not stated | "Faculty assessed a version of the model with no CBRN out-of-model mitigations" | not stated | not stated | quoted | 3deec8990a |
Access window 0 of 5Model stage 1 of 5Publication 0 of 5Payment 0 of 5Finding, quoted 2 of 5
What happened afterwards 1 on record
Events a party published after an engagement: an incident on a model this evaluator's engagement covered, a correction or added disclosure, a later finding that cut against an earlier one, a lab's statement that it acted or did not act on the finding, or a move from this evaluator to a lab it graded. A row the source attaches to this evaluator by name is marked named; one that reaches it through the model it tested is marked via the model. The kind is what the record states, not why.
| Kind | Developer | Model | What the record states | When | Source | Id |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| overridenamed | Google DeepMind | Gemini 4 Argon | "The external evaluator found that the model offered a substantial capability uplift for certain threat actors across the domains"; the lab: "Overall, these findings did not change our risk determination when reviewed alongside internal evaluation results"; on cyber, "These results were reviewed by internal SMEs and did not change our Cyber CCL determination, because they were consistent with our understanding of model capabilities"Engagement: 3deec8990a | October 2026 | Google DeepMind, Gemini 4 Argon safety report | 880899df06 |
Dated 1 of 1Model named 1 of 1Tied to an engagement 1 of 1Evaluator named by the record 1 of 1
The money on record 3 rows
Rows of the observatory's money table that name this evaluator as recipient (in) or as funder (out), each as the record states it: a grant table line, a contract notice, a Form 990 schedule or the party's own disclosure. A figure quoted in prose is marked and never summed.
| Direction | Funder | Recipient | Amount, as recorded | When | Record | Source | Id |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| in | UK DSIT | Faculty | £487,325£487,325 (September 2023)"AI Safety Research Services - Taskforce Faculty" in September 2023 | September 2023 | contract notice | Find a Tender | 48a770001f |
| in | UK DSIT | Faculty | £1,054,475£1,054,475 (April 2024)Institute research on multi-modal models, jailbreaking, bio data obfuscation and spear-phishing from January to April 2024 | April 2024 | contract notice | Contracts Finder | 7908e73689 |
| in | UK DSIT | Faculty | £298,630£298,630 (November 2024)the Institute's safeguard surveys partner from November 2024 | November 2024 | contract notice | Contracts Finder | af1712ec09 |
Amount stated 3 of 3Dated 3 of 3Purpose stated 3 of 3Funder profiled 0 of 3Recipient on the roster 3 of 3
Seats and moves 1 seats · 0 moves
Seats read off a team page, a governance page, an appointment notice or a filing that name this organization, and the dated moves into or out of it, from the observatory's own tables.
| Person | Side | Seat, as the record states it | Role | Dates | Source | Id |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ian Hogarthslice | lab | Sold his Anthropic seed stake, with Conjecture, Lakera and Faculty, on appointmentnames this evaluator alongside its own organization | not stated | dates not stated | GOV.UK register | f425278278 |
Role read 0 of 1Organization read 0 of 1Organization profiled 0 of 1Dated 0 of 1
Moves
| Person | From | To | When | Source | Id | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| no move on record names this evaluator | ||||||
From profiled 0 of 0To profiled 0 of 0Person profiled 0 of 0Dated 0 of 0