Two months ago, Anthropic announced – but declined to release – Mythos, an AI model that it implied was too powerful to unleash upon the public, owing to cybersecurity concerns. The announcement led to widespread hubbub and earned the attention of the US treasury secretary, Scott Bessent, and MI5.
Some experts, however, suggested that there could be more hype behind Anthropic’s Mythos announcement than substance, especially given the vagueness with which the company described some of Mythos’s capabilities. Heidy Khlaaf, the chief AI scientist at the AI Now Institute, called the announcement of Mythos “a marketing post”.
Read the article here.
Research Areas