Anthropic's Mythos fight turns on the hacker who first told it to slow down
Nicholas Carlini warned Anthropic not to release Mythos in March. He is now central to its case that guarded access is safer than a ban.
By Ryan Merket · Published
Primary source: WSJ.com
Why it matters
Anthropic's safety pitch is being tested at the exact point where safety and product access collide: Mythos may help defenders, but only if policymakers trust the gatekeeper.
Anthropic founders Dario Amodei and Daniela Amodei built Claude around the premise that frontier AI companies should earn trust before shipping the most capable systems. Their latest test is Nicholas Carlini, the 35-year-old Anthropic researcher who warned colleagues in March that Mythos was too capable to release and is now part of the argument for letting some version of that capability out under controls, according to a [Wall Street Journal…
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