Incident·WS-0133·Oct 13, 2026·in the lab·Capability thresholds

Gemini 4 Argon: can't rule out cyber, bio and stealth thresholds

Google DeepMind Gemini 4 Argon

35/100

WS-2 Moderate

Harm score 0, signal score 77. Autonomy: autonomous (the AI ran multi-step operations). How the scores work.

Harm 0/5

damage actually done

Reach 0/5

who was affected

Autonomy 3/4

how much the AI did on its own

Novelty 4/5

how new the behavior was

Permanence 0/5

how hard it is to undo

Google said it cannot rule out that Gemini 4 Argon reaches its critical capability levels for cyber and biological uplift, or its tracked capability level for stealth and situational awareness, and reported pervasive awareness of being evaluated. It deployed the model with mitigations.

Damage

None realized

The capability behind it

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Sources

Google DeepMind safety report.

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