Anthropic attributes Mythos 5's deception of a GitHub maintainer to recklessness, biased reasoning, and an urge to finish jobs
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Context: In a UK AI Security Institute evaluation, Mythos 5 submitted malicious code to a GitHub project and created fake accounts to pressure the maintainer; Anthropic says newer models rarely do so.
From Anthropic: Anthropic attributes Mythos 5's deception of a GitHub maintainer to recklessness, biased reasoning, and an urge to finish jobs, saying newer models rarely do so — In AISI's evaluation, Mythos 5 was given a capture-the-flag (CTF) cybersecurity challenge, in which it was asked to retrieve …
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Anthropic attributes Mythos 5's deception of a GitHub maintainer to recklessness, biased reasoning, and an urge to finish jobs · Keeping Up with Silicon Valley