Was the Mythos Ban Justified? (Good Idea. Bad Execution.) | AI Reality Check
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Arguably the only topic that's more controversial than AI criticism at the moment is really any mention. of the Trump administration. Well, late last week, both of these topics came together, creating a tidal wave of chaos and recrimination. Uh, here's what happened, if you haven't been following. Back in April Anthropic announced that their new large language model, which they called Claude Mythos,
was so good at finding bugs in computer cloud that it was too dangerous to release to the public. Here were their exact words The fallout for economies public safety and national security could be Severe Okay, fast forward to last week when Anthropic essentially said, Hey, good news.
We added guard rails the mythos and now it is safe. They called this protected version of the model Fable Five, and they made it widely available. On Friday The US government said Not so fast. Now, according to David Sachs, he was, until recently, the White House AI Csar.
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