Is Claude Mythos “Terrifying”? | AI Reality Check

0:00Anthropic recently announced a new LLM named Claude Mythos.

0:05And they claimed it was so good at finding and exploiting security vulnerabilities in source code that they couldn't release it to the general public for fear that our infrastructure as we know it would be hacked and collapsed.

0:19Now, as I'm sure Anthropic hoped, this announcement generated a lot of attention.

0:25Here's what Thomas Friedman said in his widely read New York Times column.

0:31Normally right now, I would be writing about the geopolitical implications of the war with Iran, but I want to interrupt that thought to highlight a stunning advance in artificial intelligence, one that arrives sooner than expected, and that will have equally profound geopolitical implication.

0:46Friedman then goes on to conclude, and I'm quoting him here, holy cow, superintelligent AI is arriving faster than anticipated.

0:56Basically, the mood of much of the internet right now about Claude Mythos is that Anthropic just invented the Whopper supercomputer from the 1983 Matthew Broderick movie, War Games.