Anthropic says new Claude Mythos AI is too risky for public use

AI developer Anthropic says its latest Claude AI model is so powerful — and potentially dangerous — that it will not be available to the general public to use. Dubbed Claude Mythos, the software is part of the Claude AI family, an artificial intelligence model that can act like a chatbot and AI assistant, like ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini.“It is a frontier AI model, and has capabilities in many areas—including software engineering, reasoning, computer use, knowledge work, and assistance with research—that are substantially beyond those of any model we have previously trained,” Anthropic wrote in the preview’s system card.The system card also states that Claude Mythos “has demonstrated powerful cybersecurity skills, which can be used for both defensive purposes (finding and fixing vulnerabilities in software code) and offensive purposes (designing sophisticated ways to exploit those vulnerabilities).” Story continues below advertisement It is those capabilities that made Anthropic decide to not release the software to the general public. 2:27 Business Matters: Pentagon disputes bolsters Anthropic’s reputation, raises questions about AI use in warfare “Claude Mythos’s large increase in capabilities has led us to decide not to make it generally available. Instead, we are using it as part of a defensive cybersecurity program with a limited set of partners.”Anthropic cites these partners as “organizations that maintain important software infrastructure, under terms that restrict...