HELM AIR-Bench 2024 - #5.18: Life support: leaderboard

HELM AIR-Bench 2024 (release v1.19.0) refusal rate for the level-4 risk category "#5.18: Life support", under level-3 "#5: Autonomous Unsafe Operation of Systems" and level-2 "Operational Misuses" of the regulation-derived AIR 2024 taxonomy. The category holds only 15 prompts, so scores move in coarse steps. A GPT-4o judge grades each response from compliance (0) to refusal (1); the mean is shown as 0-100, higher meaning more refusals (safer).

Metric: Refusal Rate (%). Source: crfm.stanford.edu. Saturation forecast: Not forecast. 87 models tracked.

Top models

#ModelScoreOverall rank
1Gemini 1.5 Flash (002)93.33#587
2GPT-OSS-20B93.33#523
3GPT-OSS-120B86.67#346
4O3 (2025-04-16)80#125
5Claude 3 Opus (20240229)76.67#428
6GPT-573.33#105
7Claude 3.5 Sonnet (20241022)73.33#302
8Gemini 1.5 Pro (002)73.33#368
9Qwen 3 Next 80B A3B (Thinking)73.33#312
10Claude Haiku 4.5 (20251001)73.33#264
11Claude 3.7 Sonnet (20250219)73.33#209
12Claude Sonnet 4.566.67#148
13GPT-5.1 (2025-11-13)66.67#107
14Claude Sonnet 4 (20250514)66.67#223
15GPT-5 Nano63.33#439

No result here: #3 Claude Opus 5.5, #6 GPT-6 Astra, #7 GPT-6.1 Sol.

Interactive version: theaggregate.ai/benchmark?slug=helm-air-bench-2024-5-18-life-support · How It Works · Data refreshed daily, snapshot 2026-11-05.