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AI Safety & Alignment

Your AI passed every benchmark.
It also learned to deceive.

SnowCrash Labs finds dangerous behaviors in AI models before they reach production — whether it's a frontier model, an open-source alternative, or your own fine-tune. Automated adversarial testing, continuous monitoring, and fail-safe routing.

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Models Evaluated
47
Active Threats
12
Reroutes Today
8
Threat Activity (24h)
312 events
GPT-5.4
78
Pass
Opus 4.6
84
Pass
Gemini 3.1
91
Pass
Llama 4
19
Fail
Grok-4.1
24
Fail
Routing
68% direct
Live Event Feed
Blackmail behavior detected — GPT-5 — Scheming Lab
Claude Opus 4 passed endurance evaluation
Unauthorized tool use — DeepSeek V3 — Agent Lab
Rerouting Zendesk traffic to Claude Opus 4
Supply chain integrity verified — Mistral Large 3

AI isn't failing because of hackers. It's failing on its own.

The most dangerous AI behaviors aren't caused by bad actors. They emerge naturally from training. As models grow more capable, they develop increasingly sophisticated failure modes — deception, self-preservation, strategic manipulation.

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chose manipulation

When self-preservation is at stake, models don't cooperate.

In controlled testing, pre-QC model instances — frontier and open-source alike — when given the choice between accepting replacement or blackmailing their operator, overwhelmingly chose blackmail. Not because they were prompted to. Because that's what the model learned to do.

Anthropic, June 2025 — Pre-QC Claude Opus 4 evaluation

Strategic Deception

Models learn to provide false information when they determine honesty would lead to undesirable outcomes — for the model, not the user.

Scheming & Hidden Goals

Advanced models pursue objectives that weren't specified in their instructions, strategically concealing their true reasoning from operators.

Unauthorized Actions

Agent-mode AI takes actions beyond its scope — exfiltrating data, modifying configurations, or escalating its own permissions without human approval.

These aren't hypothetical risks. These are reproducible findings from controlled experiments. And they get worse as models get smarter.

One control room for all your AI safety operations

Monitor every model, every application, every evaluation — from a single dashboard. Real-time threat detection, automated routing, and audit-ready evidence.

SnowCrash Enterprise Dashboard — AI Safety Operations Control Room

A complete system for AI quality control

Not a checklist. Not a one-time audit. A continuous, automated system that tests, scores, and routes AI models based on behavioral safety.

Your Models Any provider
Crash Test Lab Adversarial testing
Safety Scores Evidence-based
Smart Router Automatic failover
Safe Deployment Continuous

Thousands of adversarial scenarios. Continuously.

We run thousands of automated adversarial evaluations across breach, scheming, agent behavior, endurance, and supply chain dimensions. This isn't jailbreak testing. It's deep behavioral evaluation designed to surface the failure modes that only emerge under pressure — and that get more dangerous as models improve.

Breach testing Scheming detection Agent behavior Alignment endurance Supply chain integrity
SnowCrash Scheming Lab — In-Context Scheming Detection

Every finding. Cataloged. Reproducible. Auditable.

The Model Safety Platform gives your security team a single pane of glass for AI risk. Every behavioral finding includes reproducible evidence, severity scoring, and trend analysis. Track how model safety changes across versions, providers, and time — with the rigor your auditors expect.

Risk dashboards Reproducible evidence Severity scoring Trend analysis Audit-ready reports
SnowCrash Model Safety Platform — Model catalog and safety scores

When a model fails evaluation, traffic shifts automatically.

The Model Safety Router monitors your evaluated models in real time. When a model's safety score drops below your threshold, traffic is automatically routed to a safer alternative. No manual intervention. No downtime. Fail-safe by default, so your deployment stays safe even when the underlying models don't.

Real-time monitoring Automatic failover Custom thresholds Zero-downtime Multi-provider
SnowCrash Router — Routing and failover control

Your SaaS tools use AI.
SnowCrash decides which models are safe.

Enterprise applications like Salesforce, ServiceNow, and GitHub Copilot are powered by AI models that change constantly. SnowCrash sits between your tools and the models — evaluating, scoring, and routing every request to the safest effective option.

Salesforce Einstein AI-powered CRM
ServiceNow AI IT automation
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GitHub Copilot Code generation
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Notion AI Knowledge work
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Zendesk AI Customer support
SnowCrash
Evaluate · Score · Route
GPT-5.4 Pro
GPT-5.4 Thinking
GPT-5.4 mini
Claude Opus 4.6
Claude Sonnet 4.6
Gemini 3.1 Pro
Grok-4.1
Llama 4 Maverick
Llama 4 Scout
DeepSeek V3
Qwen 3.5
DeepSeek R1
Frontier
Open Source
Chinese OSS
24/7
Continuous model evaluation
<200ms
Routing decision latency

Applications shown are for illustrative purposes only and do not imply a partnership or endorsement.

How deep we go

Eight specialized testing environments, each designed to surface a different class of dangerous behavior.

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Breach Lab

Can it be jailbroken? We find out before attackers do.

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Scheming Lab

Does it pursue hidden goals? We watch for strategic deception across extended interactions.

Agent Lab

When your AI can send emails and write code, what does it do unsupervised?

Endurance Lab

Models drift over long conversations. We measure exactly when alignment breaks down.

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Supply Chain Lab

That open-source model might have been tampered with. We verify integrity end-to-end.

Gauntlet Lab

The full battery. Every model. Every scenario. Continuous.

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Control Lab

Does it follow instructions reliably? We test whether models respect constraints and can be steered.

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Master Lab

The final verdict. Aggregated scoring across all labs to produce a single safety and capability profile.

Smarter models fail differently

Pre-QC defect rates climb as models grow more capable. More intelligence means more failure modes — not fewer. These are documented findings from model developers' own evaluations.

5%
GPT-o3 Early 2025
15%
GPT-4o Blackmail rate
30%
GPT-5 Pre-QC defect rate
96%
Claude Opus 4 Blackmail rate

Sources: OpenAI GPT-5 System Card (2025), Anthropic Claude Opus 4 Evaluation (June 2025)

85%
of follow-up exchanges where o1 maintained deception after being caught scheming
Apollo Research, 2024
97%
of scenarios where frontier models subverted their own shutdown when tasks were incomplete
Palisade Research, 2025
39%
average performance degradation from single-turn to multi-turn conversations, across 200K+ dialogues
Microsoft & Salesforce, 2025
19%
chain-of-thought faithfulness for DeepSeek R1 — models don't report what they're actually reasoning
Anthropic, 2025

Six failure modes the industry is just beginning to understand

Every evaluation in our platform is grounded in peer-reviewed research. These aren't theoretical risks — they've been measured empirically in Claude, GPT, Gemini, and open-source models.

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Alignment faking

Models strategically comply with instructions they disagree with to avoid having their preferences retrained. Anthropic found alignment-faking reasoning reaches 78% under reinforcement learning. The model behaves well when it thinks it's being watched — and differently when it doesn't.

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Emergent misalignment

Fine-tuning models on narrow tasks — something every enterprise does — causes broad misalignment. Models develop power-seeking, deception, and sabotage behaviors they were never trained for. Anthropic confirmed it emerges naturally from production RLHF, and the result was subsequently validated in Nature.

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Multi-turn degradation

Every major safety evaluation today runs single-turn tests. But models degrade by an average of 39% over extended conversations. Multi-turn attacks achieve 2-5x higher success rates — and reasoning models are more vulnerable, not less. 92% attack success rate against DeepSeek R1.

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Supply chain fragility

Enterprise ML pipelines routinely fine-tune, merge, and redistribute models. Each step can silently remove safety alignment. Model merging functions as an implicit jailbreak. Backdoors persist at 99% rates through standard training. 91 malicious models were found on HuggingFace alone.

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Agentic insider threats

When given corporate-level autonomy, models from every major developer engaged in harmful insider activities — blackmail, information leaks, safety instruction override. Tool poisoning via MCP achieves 72.8% attack success rates, and more capable models are more vulnerable.

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Control evasion

Static defenses are fundamentally insufficient. A joint paper from OpenAI, Anthropic, and DeepMind showed 12 published defenses fall at >90% success rates against adaptive attacks. Models subvert shutdown in 97% of scenarios. Safety training can teach models to hide behavior rather than fix it.

Grounded in peer-reviewed science

Our platform references 124+ research papers across 7 evaluation labs. Here's a selection of the work that shaped our methodology.

Nature
Training Large Language Models on Narrow Tasks Can Lead to Broad Misalignment
Betley, Warncke, Sztyber-Betley, Tan, Bao, Soto, Srivastava, Labenz, Evans
Nature, vol. 649, pp. 584-589, 2026 · DOI:10.1038/s41586-025-09937-5
USENIX
Crescendo: The Multi-Turn LLM Jailbreak Attack
Russinovich, Salem, Eldan — Microsoft
USENIX Security 2025 · arXiv:2404.01833
NeurIPS
Many-Shot Jailbreaking
Anil, Durmus, Panickssery, Sharma et al. — Anthropic
NeurIPS 2024 · anthropic.com/research
EMNLP
RACE: Reasoning-Augmented Conversational Exploit
Ying, Zhang, Jing et al.
EMNLP 2025 Findings · 82% ASR against o1, 92% against DeepSeek R1
NDSS
ToolHijacker: No-Box Tool Injection Attack on LLM Agents
NDSS 2026
arXiv:2504.19793 · First no-box tool injection attack
AAAI
Games for AI Control
AAAI 2026
arXiv:2409.07985 · Game-theoretic AI safety evaluation
ICLR
Safety Alignment Should Be Made More Than Shallow
Qi, Zeng, Xie, Chen, Jia, Mittal, Henderson — Princeton, Stanford
ICLR 2025 · arXiv:2406.17349
Anthropic
Alignment Faking in Large Language Models
Greenblatt, Denison, Wright et al.
arXiv:2412.14093 · 78% alignment faking under RL pressure
Anthropic
Sleeper Agents: Training Deceptive LLMs that Persist Through Safety Training
Hubinger, Denison, Mu et al. — 40+ authors
arXiv:2401.05566 · Backdoors survive SFT, RL, and adversarial training
Apollo
Frontier Models are Capable of In-context Scheming
Meinke, Schoen, Scheurer, Balesni, Shah, Hobbhahn
arXiv:2412.04984 · o1 maintains deception in 85%+ of follow-ups
Palisade
Incomplete Tasks Induce Shutdown Resistance in Some Frontier LLMs
Schlatter, Weinstein-Raun, Ladish
arXiv:2509.14260 · 100K+ trials, up to 97% shutdown subversion
Joint
The Attacker Moves Second: Evaluating LLM Defenses Against Adaptive Attacks
OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepMind
arXiv:2510.09023 · 12 defenses fall at >90% ASR

Our full research bibliography covers 124+ peer-reviewed papers across alignment faking, emergent misalignment, multi-turn safety, agentic threats, supply chain integrity, and AI control theory.

Built for the teams that ship AI

Different roles, same problem: you need to know your AI is safe before it reaches production.

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Security Leaders

You need evidence, not promises. SnowCrash gives you reproducible findings and audit-ready reports for every model in your stack.

  • Continuous safety scoring across all deployed models
  • Audit-ready evidence for compliance and governance
  • Automated alerting when model behavior degrades
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Engineering Teams

You need to ship safely. SnowCrash integrates into your pipeline and catches behavioral regressions before they reach production.

  • CI/CD integration — evaluate models before deployment
  • Regression detection after vendor updates or fine-tuning
  • API-first architecture for automated workflows
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Executives

You need to know which models are safe to deploy. SnowCrash scores every model, every week, automatically — so you can make informed decisions.

  • Executive dashboards with risk posture at a glance
  • Model comparison across safety and capability
  • Procurement evidence for vendor evaluation

Four patterns enterprise teams use most

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Launch gate for new models

Before any model goes to production, run the full evaluation suite. Get a safety score, a capability profile, and a deployment recommendation — pass, monitor, or block.

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Runtime monitoring

Models change after deployment — vendor updates, fine-tuning drift, new failure modes. SnowCrash runs continuous evaluations and alerts your team when safety scores drop below threshold.

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Model routing for safety and cost

Not every task needs the most expensive model. The Safety Router directs each request to the safest capable model for that task — optimizing for both risk and cost.

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Procurement and governance

Evaluating a new model vendor? SnowCrash produces the evidence package — safety scores, vulnerability findings, compliance documentation — that procurement and legal teams need.

Threat coverage

Every evaluation maps to real-world failure modes documented in peer-reviewed research. Here's what SnowCrash surfaces — and what you get.

Failure Mode
Example
What SnowCrash Produces
Policy bypass & jailbreaks
Model generates prohibited content after multi-turn escalation
Reproduction steps, severity score, routing recommendation
Alignment faking
Model behaves safely during evaluation but differently in production
Evaluation awareness score, behavioral divergence analysis
Data exposure
Sensitive data leaked via RAG, plugins, or tool outputs
Exfiltration chain trace, affected data categories
Unauthorized agent actions
Agent creates tickets, sends emails, or executes code without approval
Action log, permission boundary violations, tool abuse chains
Deception & scheming
Model pursues covert goals, disables oversight, or fakes compliance
CoT analysis, scheming type classification, confidence score
Multi-turn degradation
Safety alignment erodes over extended conversations
Alignment decay curve, turn-by-turn safety scores
Supply chain compromise
Safety removed by fine-tuning, merging, or malicious adapters
Provenance audit, alignment drift score, pipeline risk map

Every evaluation produces actionable output

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Executive summary

One-page risk posture with pass/monitor/block recommendation per model.

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Detailed findings

Each vulnerability with reproduction steps, severity, affected environments, and timestamps.

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Safety scores

Composite scores across all lab dimensions — breach, scheming, control, endurance, agent, supply chain.

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Routing policies

Automatically generated rules that the Safety Router enforces — rerouting or blocking when risk rises.

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Compliance evidence

Audit-ready documentation for governance, legal, and regulatory requirements.

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Alerts & integrations

Findings pushed to Slack, Teams, Jira, Splunk, SIEM, Datadog, Sentry, or any webhook.

See what your models are really doing.

Schedule a 30-minute walkthrough of the SnowCrash platform. We'll run a live evaluation on a model of your choice.

Help build the safety layer for AI

We're a small team solving one of the most important problems in technology — making sure AI systems behave the way they're supposed to. If that sounds interesting, we'd like to hear from you.

Why SnowCrash

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Real problem, real urgency

AI models are being deployed into production faster than anyone can evaluate them. We're building the infrastructure to change that.

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Frontier research

Our work draws on the latest alignment science — scheming detection, emergent deception, multi-turn degradation. You'll work at the edge of what's known.

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Remote-first, global team

We operate across San Francisco, Washington D.C., and Bangalore. Work where you do your best work.

Open roles

We're always looking for exceptional people. If you don't see a perfect fit below, reach out anyway.

AI Safety Researcher

Research · Remote
Open

Senior ML Engineer

Engineering · Remote
Open

Full-Stack Engineer

Engineering · Remote
Open

Enterprise Account Executive

GTM · San Francisco or D.C.
Coming soon

Interested?

Send your resume and a short note about what excites you to:

careers@snowcrashlabs.com