arxivcs.AIcs.CRcs.CY2026-07-13
A Threshold Exceedance Framework for CBRN Uplift Evaluation in Frontier Language Models
Rahul Gupta, Abhinav Mohanty, Payal Motwani, Venkatesh Saligrama, Satyapriya Krishna, Connor Harris, et al.
As frontier language models advance, policymakers and model developers need methods for assessing whether model access materially increases a non-expert actor's ability to plan high-consequence Chemical, Biological, Radiological, or Nuclear (CBRN) misuse relative to public tools…