How Anthropic Learned Mythos Was Too Dangerous for the Wild
THE SO WHAT
If internal experts think Mythos can compromise the substrate of modern computing, model risk just graduated from "PR and bias" to systemic cyber risk. Treat frontier access like zero-day stockpiles — controlled, logged, and separated from your production estate.
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