Benchmark Almanac

Safety mode controllability (Cohere)

Only in system cards

Models follow contextual or strict safety instructions. Accuracy averages correct answers on an over-refusal set and correct refusals on a control set.

In-house Cohere evaluation. The tasks are not public.

Made by Cohere Released Apr 2025 Refusing harmful requests Tasks kept private Last in a system card Apr 2025 Last model added Apr 2025
Level
Everyday Most adults, without training
Scored
Graded by a model A language model scores each response, usually against a rubric.
Answers
Open-ended Free-form text, documents, designs or media judged as a whole.
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System card reports it, from 1 lab

No scores here yet

No lab, leaderboard or Epoch AI run has reported a score for Safety mode controllability (Cohere) yet.

Labs report it only in system cards

We read the headline results of 479 launch posts from 51 labs, and none of them list this benchmark. Some system cards do, below.

One system card reports it

Besides launch posts, we read the system cards, model cards and technical reports labs publish with a release. They report far more, including safety and frontier-risk tests.

DateDocumentScoreAs the document writes itSection
1 Apr 2025 Cohere Command A technical report Safety mode performance, two modes with no overall (Table 27): Contextual Accuracy 75.4, Over-Refusal 8.3. Strict Accuracy 87.5, Over-Refusal 10.2 Safety

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