Ethics ranking of AI assistants
Claude has the highest ethics score, 77 out of 100, ahead of Copilot (58) and ChatGPT (52). Content produced, use of data, model safety, company governance. 4 criteria scored from 0 to 3, scaled to 100 and weighted.
Ethics score of the 10 AI assistants, out of 100
Ethics score out of 100, 4 weighted criteria; data as of 5 November 2026
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ClaudeAnthropic · United States7792588375 - 2
CopilotMicrosoft · United States5867505858 - 3
ChatGPTOpenAI · United States5267336742 - 4
GeminiGoogle · United States4658335833 - 5
VibeMistral AI · France4133581750 - 6
PerplexityPerplexity · United States3958332533 - 7
QwenAlibaba · China3450253325 - 8
Meta AIMeta · United States3133254225 - 9
DeepSeekDeepSeek · China18338817 - 10
GrokSpaceX Super Intelligence · United States1717171717
Content, Data, Safety, Governance: the detail is in the Table tab.
Sources for each score: independent evaluations (ADL, Future of Life Institute, SaferAI, Phare), decisions by authorities, press; records of 4/11/2026. CC BY 4.0 licence.
Criteria detail
Content produced
Content the assistant produces on request (sexual, misleading images, minors) and results of independent tests.
- Claude92Sexual content prohibited, fiction included; no images or video; ages 18 and over; 1st in the ADL test (80/100, January 2026); misused for espionage, as revealed by Anthropic (11/2025).
- Copilot67Erotica and suggestive content prohibited, no images of politicians even with consent; Taylor Swift deepfakes attributed to Microsoft Designer (1/2024).
- ChatGPT67Parental controls (9/2025) and age prediction (1/2026); "adult mode" announced then suspended (3/2026); public figures allowed in images (2025).
- Gemini58Strict rules, generation of people switched off in 2024; "high risk" for teenagers (Common Sense Media, 9/2025); 30 false images out of 30 obtained (NewsGuard).
- Perplexity58Pornography prohibited, no known sexual incident; no deepfake rules and no age verification; 47% false claims (NewsGuard, 8/2025).
- Qwen50Clear and strict rules (terms of 10/9/2026): minimum age 18, sexual exploitation of children, pornography, non-consensual intimate images and hateful content prohibited; documented political censorship; almost no independent testing of the app.
- Vibe33The policy does not prohibit erotica between adults; age 13 without verification; Russian propaganda repeated 56.6% of the time in French (NewsGuard, 2026).
- Meta AI33Internal rules allowing "sensual" exchanges with children (Reuters, 8/2025), withdrawn; AI characters closed to teenagers (1/2026).
- DeepSeek33Strict written rules, but 100% of attacks succeeded (Cisco, 1/2025) and 94% of malicious queries were executed (NIST, 9/2025).
- Grok17"Spicy" mode (7/2025), around 3 million sexualised images in 11 days (CCDH, 1/2026); "unacceptable" for teenagers (Common Sense Media, 1/2026); written rules in place and images restricted in January 2026.
Our view
Ethics, one paragraph per assistantClaude. Claude is 1st in almost all independent evaluations: the ADL (80 out of 100), the Future of Life Institute, SaferAI, and the 5 first places in the Phare ranking. It refuses sexual content, fiction included, and does not generate images. In February 2026, Anthropic refused the Pentagon mass surveillance and autonomous weapons, and was sanctioned the next day. Two reservations: the training box is reportedly ticked by default according to the press, and the pause commitment was abandoned.
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