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Meta has defined specific risk domains — cyber, chemical, and biological — as the scope of catastrophic outcomes its framework targets, establishing the boundaries of its preventive focus.
Interpretive note: The clause name references evaluating catastrophic risk before model release, but the excerpt itself does not mention model release as a condition or trigger. The canonical claim is limited strictly to what the excerpt states.
Meta's framework is directed at preventing catastrophic outcomes it has identified in the cyber, chemical, and biological risk domains.
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Meta has defined specific risk domains — cyber, chemical, and biological — as the scope of catastrophic outcomes its framework targets, establishing the boundaries of its preventive focus.
Meta's framework is directed at preventing catastrophic outcomes it has identified in the cyber, chemical, and biological risk domains.
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