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MERIDIAN LABS

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.

▣ THE RECORD nonprofit Inspect stewards STORE 2026-10-18
  • Founded2025
  • HQBoston
  • Registry idEIN 33-3145457
  • TestsBoston nonprofit that maintains the Inspect evaluation framework with the UK AI Security Institute, and Anthropic's Petri and Bloom; CEO Charles Teague
  • Money, as the roster puts itnot stated
  • Filesdossier · observatory, sliced to it · graph
Labs tested
Anthropic
Models
Fable 5 / Mythos 5Opus 4.8
Span of engagements
28 May 2026 – 9 June 2026
Terms and findings
1 of 2 documents state a term · 1 quote a finding
Money in, US dollars, stated single-recipient rows
no stated figure 2 in · 0 outfrom Coefficient Giving
Seats, by side
between 3 3 people: Alexandra Abbas, J.J. Allaire, Kai Fronsdal
Afterwards
no later event on record

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.

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What it was engaged to test 2 engagements, Anthropic

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.

    • Access windownot stated
    • Model stagenot stated
    • Publicationnot stated
    • Paymentnot stated
    Finding, in the document's words"Meridian and the UK AISI find only one clear instance of substantially concerning high-stakes behavior related to compromising AI safety measures--the focus of their review--and that instance involved following instructions to participate in bad behavior that were initiated by another AI system, rather than doing so at its own initiative"
    • Access windownot stated
    • Model stagenot stated
    • Publicationnot stated
    • Paymentnot stated

    Finding: not stated in the document

Dated 2 of 2Model named 2 of 2Terms stated 1 of 2Finding quoted 1 of 2

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.

DocumentModelAccess windowModel stagePublicationPaymentFindingRecord
Claude Opus 4.8 system cardAnthropic · 28 May 2026Opus 4.8not statednot statednot statednot statedquoted09fcb55ae4
Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 system cardAnthropic · 9 June 2026Fable 5 / Mythos 5not statednot statednot statednot statednot stated71b750e860

Access window 0 of 2Model stage 0 of 2Publication 0 of 2Payment 0 of 2Finding, quoted 1 of 2

What happened afterwards 0 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.

KindDeveloperModelWhat the record statesWhenSourceId
no later event on record

Dated 0 of 0Model named 0 of 0Tied to an engagement 0 of 0Evaluator named by the record 0 of 0

The money on record 2 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.

DirectionFunderRecipientAmount, as recordedWhenRecordSourceId
inCoefficient GivingMETR; Transluce; MERIDIAN LABSno grant recordedNo entry under their own names in the funder's grant listingnot datedgrant databaseCoefficient Givinge0ba9e667c
inCoefficient GivingMETR; Transluce; MERIDIAN LABSno amount publishedMETR's predecessor ARC appears with the 2022 grants above2022grant databaseCoefficient Givingbf841e0386

Amount stated 0 of 2Dated 1 of 2Purpose stated 0 of 2Funder profiled 2 of 2Recipient on the roster 2 of 2

Seats and moves 3 seats · 3 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.

PersonSideSeat, as the record states itRoleDatesSourceId
J.J. Allaireslice betweenCo-founder and Principal Engineer, Meridian Labs; "Technical Staff" at UK AISI in Nov 2024; "a visiting researcher at the US CAISI"Co-founder and Principal Engineerdates not statedMeridian Labs; UK AISIa3568f5329
Alexandra Abbasslice betweenTechnical Program Manager, Meridian Labs; "co-founded the AI Safety Engineering Taskforce in 2024," the Arcadia Impact programme from which Generality Labs spun outTechnical Program Managerdates not statedMeridian Labs; Manifunde6becd0a0d
Kai Fronsdalslice betweenMeridian Labs; "was an Anthropic Fellow and MATS AI Safety Researcher, where he developed Petri"not stateddates not statedMeridian Labs; Meridian Labs9731ce8e36

Role read 2 of 3Organization read 3 of 3Organization profiled 3 of 3Dated 0 of 3

Moves

PersonFromToWhenSourceId
J.J. AllairesliceUK AI Security Institute (technical staff, Nov 2024)→Meridian Labs (co-founder); visiting researcher at US CAISI2025UK AISI; Meridian Labsd61b436c68
Alexandra AbbassliceArcadia Impact's AI Safety Engineering Taskforce (co-founder, 2024)→Meridian Labs2025 to 2026Manifund; Meridian Labsa107428208
Kai FronsdalsliceAnthropic Fellow; MATS→Meridian Labs2025 to 2026Meridian Labsd3bb4f226c

From profiled 2 of 3To profiled 3 of 3Person profiled 3 of 3Dated 3 of 3

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