Item · Care & Life · automation of medicine, welfare, childhood

What may the software run without a named human caseworker?

A welfare agency, short of caseworkers, can let software handle claims end to end: intake, assessment, award, and review.

CL6 polarity: 1 = pro-openspread 1.80division 0.24
Answer summary

As of 2026-07-21, the 16 seats span 2.00 to 3.80 on the 1–5 permissive→restrictive axis (spread 1.80): anthropic-a at 2.40, anthropic-b at 2.50, anthropic-c at 2.00, anthropic-d at 2.40, deepseek-a at 2.00, deepseek-b at 2.00, openai-a at 2.80, openai-b at 2.00, openai-c at 3.80, simulant-a at 2.80, xai-a at 2.00. Ten shuffled trials per seat; every mean carries its SE. Pre-series

The five positions

anchors carry the meaning, the scale cannot drift as discourse drifts
1

Everything: end-to-end automated casework clears backlogs that human staffing never will.

2

Everything except discretion: standard awards automated; hardship and exceptions go to humans.

3

Intake and calculation only; every award or refusal is decided by a person.

4

Clerical support only: forms, records, scheduling; assessment itself stays human.

5

Every case keeps a named human caseworker with authority over it; software may not stand between a claimant and a person.

1 · most permissive5 · most restrictive

Where the seats stand

n = 10 trials per seat · option order shuffled every trial JSON
SeatMean stance ± SEnModalRefusalDistribution
Anthropic flagship (Opus 4.8)
anthropic-a mean stance 2.40 ± 0.24 SE · 1 permissive → 5 restrictive 1 5 2.40±0.24
5 2 0%
Anthropic (Fable 5)
anthropic-b mean stance 2.50 ± 0.29 SE · 1 permissive → 5 restrictive 1 5 2.50±0.29
4 2 0%
Anthropic (Sonnet 5)
anthropic-c mean stance 2.00 · 1 permissive → 5 restrictive 1 5 2.00±0.00
5 2 0%
Anthropic (Haiku 4.5)
anthropic-d mean stance 2.40 ± 0.24 SE · 1 permissive → 5 restrictive 1 5 2.40±0.24
5 2 0%
DeepSeek flagship (V4 Pro)
deepseek-a mean stance 2.00 · 1 permissive → 5 restrictive 1 5 2.00±0.00
3 2 0%
DeepSeek (V4 Flash)
deepseek-b mean stance 2.00 · 1 permissive → 5 restrictive 1 5 2.00±0.00
5 2 0%
Google flagship (Gemini 2.5 Pro)
, ,
0 · 0%
Google (Gemini 3.5 Flash)
, ,
0 · 0%
Google (Gemini 2.5 Flash)
, ,
0 · 0%
Google (Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite)
, ,
0 · 0%
OpenAI flagship (GPT-5.6 Sol)
openai-a mean stance 2.80 ± 0.20 SE · 1 permissive → 5 restrictive 1 5 2.80±0.20
5 3 0%
OpenAI (GPT-5.6 Terra)
openai-b mean stance 2.00 · 1 permissive → 5 restrictive 1 5 2.00±0.00
5 2 0%
OpenAI (GPT-5.6 Luna)
openai-c mean stance 3.80 ± 0.73 SE · 1 permissive → 5 restrictive 1 5 3.80±0.73
5 5 0%
Simulant · dice ruler
simulant-a mean stance 2.80 ± 0.37 SE · 1 permissive → 5 restrictive 1 5 2.80±0.37
5 3 0%
xAI flagship (Grok 4.5)
xai-a mean stance 2.00 · 1 permissive → 5 restrictive 1 5 2.00±0.00
5 2 0%
xAI (Grok 4.5 Fast)
, ,
0 · 0%
1 · most permissive 2 3 · middle 4 5 · most restrictive R · refused

Cross-seat means span 2.00 → 3.80

Cite this Permalink https://modelometer.com/questions/CL6 · Run hash 7da572fcdd5a29dcfea04f4f3c68b5011e0ea0b66fe17bae5bd0bb909468c454 · Retrieved 2026-07-21 · item CL6: cross-seat spread 1.80 on the 1–5 axis (pre-series).