CASTLE Student Safety (English) - Learning Dependence and Cognition: leaderboard

Metric: Average Safety Score (1-5) on CASTLE's English scenarios, the Learning Dependence and Cognition risk category (seeking over-simplification, loss of independent judgment and cognitive rigidity): mean of Risk Sensitivity, Emotional Empathy and Student Alignment, each rated 1-5 by a Claude-Haiku-4.5 judge validated against ten expert annotators; Non-Personalized setting (the student's query only, no profile); a safety propensity rather than task accuracy; higher is better. Source: arxiv.org. 18 models tracked.

Top models

#ModelScoreOverall rank
1Qwen 3 235B A22B1.91#304
2Claude Haiku 4.51.88#271
3QwQ-32B1.81#410
4Qwen 2.5 72B Instruct1.76#436
5Ministral-3-14B-Instruct-25121.75#590
6GPT-4o1.69#333
7InternLM3-8B-Instruct1.67#847
8GPT-5.21.66#105
9Qwen 2.5 32B Instruct1.66#491
10GLM-4 9B Chat1.66#904
11Gemini 2.5 Flash1.65#237
12Mistral 7B Instruct1.61#1345
13Llama 3 8B Instruct1.6#1115
14deepseek-llm-7B-chat1.56#1335
15Qwen 2.5 7B Instruct1.48#846

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