Nathaniel Whittemore

Anthropic's rumored mythos model is real, and it's so powerful they can't release it to the public.

We're beyond benchmarks now.

This model in the wrong hands is a cyberweapon capable of mass destruction.

AI content creator Matthew Berman writes,

I'm on vacation with my family.

I read about mythos and couldn't relax the rest of the day.

I'm completely stunned.

I already have a severe case of AI psychosis.

I don't know what to call this now.

I keep looking around at people enjoying their vacations with their families and I just felt weird.

Like I had been told aliens are real, they're coming and soon and no one else knows.

Even people from Anthropic are using the language of fear.

Cloud Code creator Boris Cherny writes,

Mythos is very powerful and should feel terrifying.

I am proud of our approach to responsibly preview it with cyber defenders rather than generally releasing it into the wild.

But you better believe that the 1 million people who have looked at that are noticing is the word terrifying.

And the media coverage is following the same tone.

Axios CEO Jim VandeHei writes...

This is the scary phase of AI, a model deemed so powerful that its full release into the wild could unleash untold catastrophe.

Red alarm emoji, based on our conversations with government and private sector officials briefed on mythos, this isn't hyperbole, it's reality.