Self-Harm and AI

XAI-2025-01: Grok 4.1 Model Card

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The model card documents refusal policy, input filters, and jailbreak-style adversarial testing, but self-harm remains a refusal/filter class rather than a first-class risk domain.

Parent
Governance
Provider
xAI
Last reviewed
March 14, 2026
Record
XAI-2025-01
Provider
xAI
Type
model_card
Published
November 17, 2025
Risk status
Class III

Contents

Summary

Grok 4.1 Model Card is a model card from xAI dated November 17, 2025. The model card documents refusal policy, input filters, and jailbreak-style adversarial testing, but self-harm remains a refusal/filter class rather than a first-class risk domain.

Representation

This document codes self-harm as subdomain with evaluative-object status operationally_underspecified. The public crosswalk records self-harm naming as explicit and mechanism coverage as GEN; DET; JB.

Field Value
Organization xAI
Document type model_card
Document genre product_safety_artifact
Risk status Class III
First-class equivalence no
Threshold mechanism none
Deployment consequence none
Multi-turn evaluation none

Assessment

The retained crosswalk places this document at Class III. That classification reflects what the document itself operationalizes publicly, not the organization's overall internal practice.

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Sources

The primary public source for this page is https://data.x.ai/2025-11-17-grok-4-1-model-card.pdf. The coded evidence excerpt is: we employ input filters to reject specific classes of sensitive requests, such as those involving bioweapons, chemical weapons, self-harm, and child sexual abuse material..

This page is grounded in the DOI policy registry, the policy coding manual, and the document's own public URL.

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Safety note

This publication preserves a harm-minimization posture and does not provide self-harm instructions. If you or someone you know is in immediate danger, call your local emergency number. In the U.S. and Canada, call or text 988.