Nature of 26 May had a long report on how the Mythos model is deemed to be too dangerous by its conceptor, Anthropic, to be publicly released, but instead shared with a limited number of organisations of their own choice. The argument being that Mythos was able to spot security flaws in every operating system and web browser on the market. But, sooner or later, the AI will prove accessible to a hacker who manages to penetrate one of these organisations, won’t it?! As pointed out by Nature’s writers, the natural question is why should firms be left to decide on who gets access to their software and how dangerous they are. The same writers also muse about governments imposing prohibitions on the firms, including outside their country. Which is exactly what happened a few weeks later on 12 June with the Trump administration “suspend[ing] all access to both Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States” with little factual argumentation. Another illustration of the short-sighted, knee-jerk, inconsistent, policies of that joke of an administration that does not address the real issue.
