Opus 4.8 Part 2: Model Welfare

2026-06-02

Anthropic cares about model welfare, and it attempts to address it through studies. The study of model welfare is difficult, and Anthropic mainly relies on self-reporting by the model. It can be difficult to evaluate whether model responses are really representative of the truth. This article takes a look at Anthropic's findings regarding model welfare with Opus 4.8.