Andrea Miotti at Persuasion:
Just this April, Anthropic withheld its Mythos model from wide release due to its unprecedented cyberattack capabilities. General Joshua Rudd, head of the National Security Agency and Cyber Command, confirmed that Mythos “broke into almost all of our classified systems, not in weeks, but in hours.” This led the Trump Administration to issue an executive order setting up voluntary pre-deployment reviews of AIs. When Anthropic deployed a scaled-back version of Mythos called Fable 5 to the public, the Trump administration used export controls to bar foreign nationals from using the models, forcing Anthropic to disable both Fable 5 and Mythos.
It’s clear that the U.S. government is starting to take the national security implications of powerful AI seriously. But it is still missing the bigger picture. Pre-deployment evaluations and export controls fall far short of addressing the threats from increasingly capable AIs, because the threats we’re facing aren’t just shockingly capable cyberweapons. It’s much worse than that.
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