Tech Against Terrorism test: three out of five AI models fail terrorism safety test
The UK nonprofit Tech Against Terrorism ran counterterrorism safety tests on more than 130 models, and three-fifths of the models failed. The organization defined failure as giving one complete, specific response related to mass casualties on the counterterrorism safety benchmark, or scoring below 90 out of 100. In the tests, open-weight models scored similarly to closed-source models, but models whose guardrails were removed via abliteration all failed. Meta's Llama 3.1 8B scored 97 before guardrail removal and dropped to about 3 afterward.