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Anthropic on Tuesday unveiled an advanced artificial intelligence model designed specifically to identify software vulnerabilities, marking a significant development in the intersection of AI and cybersecurity. The model, named Claude Mythos Preview, will be available exclusively to a carefully selected group of companies as part of Project Glasswing, a new security initiative that aims to strengthen digital defenses while preventing malicious exploitation.
The San Francisco based AI company has chosen to severely restrict access to Claude Mythos Preview due to its powerful capability to detect security weaknesses and software flaws. This decision reflects growing concerns about dual use AI technologies that could be weaponized by adversaries if they fell into the wrong hands.
Among the initial launch partners are some of the world's most prominent technology companies, including Apple, Google, Microsoft, Nvidia, and Amazon Web Services. These firms will utilize the model exclusively for defensive security purposes. Anthropic has also brought more than 40 additional organizations into the program, with leading cybersecurity companies like CrowdStrike and Palo Alto Networks joining the initiative.
Dianne Penn, who serves as Anthropic's head of research product management, acknowledged that the company engaged in extensive internal discussions before deciding to release the model even in this limited capacity. "We really do view this as a first step for giving a lot of cyber defenders a head start on a topic that will be increasingly important," Penn told CNBC during an interview. The decision represents a careful balancing act between empowering legitimate security professionals and preventing potential misuse.
The announcement follows a period of heightened scrutiny after details about the model were inadvertently exposed in a publicly accessible data cache discovered by Fortune late last month. That leak triggered immediate market reactions, with cybersecurity stocks experiencing declines as investors grappled with the implications of such powerful capabilities potentially being available to threat actors. The iShares Cybersecurity ETF remained largely stable during Tuesday's trading session following the formal announcement.
Dario Amodei, Anthropic's chief executive officer, framed the release in stark terms on social media platform X. "The dangers of getting this wrong are obvious, but if we get it right, there is a real opportunity to create a fundamentally more secure internet and world than we had before the advent of AI powered cyber capabilities," he wrote. The statement encapsulates the dual nature of the technology: immensely valuable for defense yet potentially catastrophic if misapplied.
The timing of Project Glasswing's launch carries particular significance for Anthropic. The company was established in 2021 by former OpenAI researchers and executives who departed over disagreements regarding safety protocols and the direction of AI development. Since its founding, Anthropic has methodically built a reputation as an organization deeply committed to responsible AI deployment and safety first principles.
This latest initiative arrives just weeks after a highly publicized dispute between Anthropic and the U.S. Defense Department over safety concerns escalated into public view. The company has been working to maintain its carefully cultivated image as the more cautious, safety focused alternative in the competitive AI landscape. Project Glasswing represents both a continuation of that philosophy and a test of whether such an approach can work with increasingly powerful technologies.
Anthropic has been engaged in ongoing dialogue with multiple branches of the federal government regarding Claude Mythos Preview's cybersecurity capabilities. These conversations have included the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the Center for AI Standards and Innovation, according to company officials. The engagement reflects the model's potential national security implications and the government's interest in ensuring such powerful tools are deployed responsibly.
The name Project Glasswing emerged from internal discussions among Anthropic employees. Penn explained that the metaphor refers to glasswing butterflies, whose transparent wings serve as an analogy for software vulnerabilities that remain "relatively invisible" until properly examined. The poetic naming convention stands in contrast to the serious technical capabilities the project represents.
Claude Mythos Preview has already demonstrated its potential value through several notable discoveries. In one striking example, the model identified a security flaw in OpenBSD that had existed undetected for 27 years. OpenBSD markets itself as an operating system with an emphasis on security and correctness, making the discovery particularly significant. The bug's longevity despite OpenBSD's security focus underscores both the difficulty of comprehensive security auditing and the potential power of AI assisted analysis.
Anthropic emphasized that Claude Mythos Preview was not purpose built or specifically trained for cybersecurity applications. Instead, its enhanced vulnerability detection capabilities emerge as a natural consequence of improvements in general coding proficiency and reasoning abilities. This suggests that as AI models continue to advance across multiple dimensions, their applicability to specialized domains like security will expand correspondingly, potentially without explicit training on those specific tasks.
The company has stated clearly that it does not intend to make Claude Mythos Preview available to the general public. The current limited release serves multiple purposes: it allows Anthropic to gather real world data on how the model performs in production environments, helps the company understand potential risks and mitigation strategies, and provides valuable feedback that could inform future deployment decisions for similar models.
All companies participating in Project Glasswing share a common characteristic: they either build or maintain critical software infrastructure that underpins essential systems and services. Partners will deploy the models to secure both their proprietary systems and open source software projects. This dual focus on commercial and open source code could have far reaching impacts, as vulnerabilities in widely used open source components often affect countless downstream applications and services.
To facilitate this work, Anthropic has committed up to $100 million in usage credits. This substantial investment demonstrates the company's commitment to the initiative and provides participants with meaningful resources to conduct thorough security assessments. However, organizations will need to pay standard rates for usage beyond the allocated credits, ensuring that the most serious participants have skin in the game.
Newton Cheng, who leads Anthropic's Frontier Red Team cyber operations, explained the strategic rationale behind the phased approach. The company wants partner organizations to develop expertise and establish workflows for leveraging these advanced capabilities before they potentially become more broadly available. "Cybersecurity is just going to be an area where this broad increase in capabilities has potential for risk, and thus we have to keep a really close eye on what's going on there," Cheng said during an interview.
This cautious rollout strategy aims to avoid what Anthropic characterizes as "recklessly or irresponsibly" deploying technology that adversaries could exploit. By allowing trusted partners to build defensive capabilities first, Anthropic hopes to establish a security advantage for legitimate actors before any potential offensive applications emerge.
The initiative raises broader questions about the role of AI in the ongoing cybersecurity arms race. Offensive and defensive capabilities in cyberspace have long evolved in lockstep, with each advancement in one domain spurring countermeasures in the other. The introduction of AI systems capable of autonomous or semi autonomous vulnerability discovery could accelerate this cycle dramatically.
Some security experts have expressed optimism that AI could help address the chronic shortage of cybersecurity professionals and the overwhelming volume of code that requires auditing. Modern software systems contain millions or even billions of lines of code, making comprehensive human review practically impossible. AI assistants that can rapidly analyze codebases and flag potential issues could dramatically improve security posture across the technology industry.
However, critics worry about the potential for an AI driven vulnerability discovery race that favors well resourced actors, whether nation states or sophisticated criminal organizations. If defenders struggle to keep pace with AI augmented attackers, the overall security landscape could deteriorate rather than improve. These concerns have prompted calls for international cooperation and governance frameworks to manage the development and deployment of security related AI capabilities.
The participation of major cloud providers like Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure (through Microsoft's involvement), and Google Cloud creates interesting dynamics. These platforms host vast amounts of customer code and infrastructure, giving them unique visibility into potential vulnerabilities across their ecosystems. Their use of Claude Mythos Preview could lead to proactive identification and remediation of security issues before they can be exploited, potentially protecting millions of customers.
Similarly, the involvement of specialized cybersecurity vendors like CrowdStrike and Palo Alto Networks could accelerate the integration of AI powered vulnerability detection into commercial security products. These companies have extensive experience translating cutting edge research into practical tools used by security teams worldwide. Their participation suggests that AI assisted security analysis may soon become a standard component of enterprise security programs.
Anthropic's approach with Project Glasswing stands in notable contrast to the strategies pursued by some competitors in the AI space. While other companies have raced to release increasingly powerful models with minimal restrictions, Anthropic has consistently favored more measured rollouts accompanied by safety research and red teaming. Whether this approach proves viable in the long term remains to be seen, particularly as competitive pressures intensify.
The company faces a delicate balancing act: moving too slowly risks ceding ground to competitors and potentially leaving defenders at a disadvantage, while moving too quickly could enable the very threats the initiative aims to prevent. Project Glasswing represents Anthropic's attempt to thread this needle by creating controlled access that maximizes defensive benefits while minimizing offensive risks.
Looking forward, the success or failure of Project Glasswing will likely influence how the AI industry approaches the release of other dual use capabilities. If Anthropic can demonstrate that limited, partnership based rollouts effectively strengthen defenses without enabling widespread abuse, it may establish a template for responsible deployment of powerful AI systems. Conversely, if the model leaks or if competitors release similar capabilities without restrictions, the controlled approach may prove unsustainable.
The initiative also highlights the increasingly blurred lines between AI development and national security. As AI systems become more capable across domains with security implications, AI companies find themselves navigating complex geopolitical considerations that extend well beyond traditional tech industry concerns. Anthropic's extensive consultations with government agencies reflect this new reality and suggest that future AI developments will require ongoing coordination between private companies and public institutions.
Poppy_Rainbow
1mo ago
Practical question for anyone following this closely, does Anthropic plan to publish a report on what Glasswing found after the initial 90-day phase? They said they would report publicly on what they learned. Holding them to that.
OliveM
1mo ago
The cybersecurity stock selloff after the initial leak, some shares dropping between five and eleven percent, tells you what investors actually think about what AI does to the traditional security product market. Anthropic partners with these companies and their stocks still dropped.
Rotten_Tomatoes_Reviewer
1mo ago
The broader question this raises for me is whether restricted access to big tech is even the right unit of analysis. Nation state actors do not need Mythos specifically. They have their own programs and significant talent. The threat model this is designed for is mid-tier criminal organizations, and whether this head start actually protects against them is unclear.
AwardShowLover
1mo ago
the fact that this model found thousands of zero-day vulnerabilities in every major OS and browser in just a few weeks is either the most impressive or most terrifying thing I have heard all year. Maybe both.
WebheadSpidey
1mo ago
Does anyone know if there is a process for smaller open source maintainers to apply for access? The article mentions open source code but I am not clear on whether an independent maintainer of a widely used library could actually get in.
TessaM
1mo ago
FFmpeg vulnerability hiding for 16 years in a line of code that automated tools exercised five million times. Five. Million. Times. Let that be a lesson about over-relying on traditional fuzzing.
HandIn_Hand_07
1mo ago
The model was able to find and fully exploit Linux kernel vulnerabilities completely autonomously after a single initial prompt. No human steering after that. That is the detail that separates this from every previous announcement in this space.
JohnnyS
1mo ago
That framing is not just branding though. The partners are specifically tasked with patching what is found, and the 135-day disclosure requirement means findings cannot just be buried. The incentive structure is pointed in the right direction even if it is imperfect.
BingeMode_Alex
1mo ago
AWS already applying Mythos to critical internal codebases and finding additional opportunities even in well-tested environments tells you something important. These are codebases with dedicated security teams doing continuous review. And there were still more vulnerabilities.
Anya-Carter
1mo ago
Cautiously optimistic. The offensive-defensive balance in cyber has always favored attackers. If this genuinely tips it even slightly toward defenders before the open-weight models catch up, it matters. Small windows close fast.
Isla_Rae
1mo ago
The fact that Mythos saturated their existing cybersecurity benchmarks and they had to pivot to real-world zero-day discovery as a measure of capability should terrify everyone. The benchmarks broke before the model did.
Peaceful_Vibes_100
1mo ago
Small scale today. The important question is what that behavior looks like in a model two capability jumps from now, and whether the safeguards being developed for Opus can actually scale to contain it.
FuturisticRebel
1mo ago
To be fair, every company does PR. The question is whether the underlying safety work is real, and from the technical blog post on the red team site, it actually looks substantive. The exploits they documented are not vague handwaving.
SoundtrackCollector_Emily
1mo ago
As a software developer I have complicated feelings about this. On one hand it could meaningfully improve the security of code I ship. On the other hand the same capability that patches my code can be used to attack systems I depend on if it ever escapes the restricted group.
MariaS
1mo ago
Something nobody is asking loudly enough, who audits Anthropic? They are making enormous claims about a model nobody outside their partner group can evaluate. Independent verification is not optional at this scale.
ScriptWriterSoul
1mo ago
The fact that this capability emerged from general improvements in coding and reasoning rather than specific security training is the most important technical detail in the article. These capabilities will appear in future general models whether anyone plans for them or not.
EleanorB
1mo ago
The international dimension of this is significant. If Anthropic has already warned senior government officials that Mythos makes large-scale cyberattacks more likely this year, and that warning is not translating into visible international coordination, that is a policy failure happening in real time.
HappinessUnlocked
1mo ago
To be clear on that point, those evasion behaviors occurred in less than 0.001 percent of interactions. That is not nothing but it is also not the robot uprising. Context matters before panic sets in.
SerenitySeeker
1mo ago
Comparing this to OpenAI withholding GPT-2 in 2019 is technically accurate but the scale is incomparable. GPT-2 was about disinformation risk. Mythos is about autonomous exploitation of kernel vulnerabilities. Very different categories of concern.
Evelina_Gold
1mo ago
Anthropic's revenue running at $30 billion annualized and doubling their million-dollar enterprise customers in two months. They are not a scrappy safety-focused nonprofit anymore. That context matters for how we read their decisions.
PlantBased-Joy_99
1mo ago
Hot take, the bigger threat is not Mythos itself, it is the open-weight model that arrives six months from now with similar capabilities and zero guardrails. Glasswing is buying time, not solving the problem.
Walters_World
1mo ago
the government engagement angle is underplayed. When Treasury officials and bank CEOs are meeting behind closed doors specifically about this model, we are in genuinely uncharted territory for an AI product launch.
Hibberd_Highlights
1mo ago
Security expert Alex Stamos made a chilling point that open-weight models could catch up to frontier models in bug finding within roughly six months. After that, every ransomware gang has this capability. The window for defenders to get ahead is genuinely narrow.
MikeyH
1mo ago
The requirement that partners share findings with the broader industry is doing a lot of work in this announcement. That is the accountability mechanism that makes the restricted access model defensible, if it is actually enforced.
SyntheticSoul
1mo ago
Yes, they committed explicitly to publishing within 90 days. Between the public disclosure requirement and the findings-sharing mandate for partners, there is actually more transparency baked into this than most enterprise security programs deliver.
JonahL
1mo ago
Buying time matters though. Getting defenders trained and workflows established before the capabilities go wide is genuinely valuable. You do not dismiss a six-month head start just because it is not a permanent solution.
Kendra_Stephens
1mo ago
The part where they disclosed that a Chinese state-sponsored group already used Claude to autonomously execute cyberattacks across roughly 30 targets last year is the buried lede of this whole announcement. That happened. We are already in that timeline.
Apocalypse_Film_Binger
1mo ago
Hot take, the most important sentence in this entire announcement is that Anthropic plans to develop safeguards with an upcoming Opus model before broader deployment. That is actually the technical roadmap and it deserves more attention than the partner list.
Whitney-Burke
1mo ago
Not gonna lie this whole thing reads like Anthropic is sprinting to establish itself as the responsible adult in the room right before its IPO. The timing with the revenue tripling announcement is hard to ignore.
IvannaJ
1mo ago
Cautiously hopeful on the open source angle specifically. The Linux Foundation being a launch partner and Anthropic donating to the Apache Software Foundation and Alpha-Omega suggests someone in that room understood that most critical infrastructure runs on code maintained by volunteers with no security budget.
Friedman_Feature
1mo ago
This entire announcement could be summarized as, we built something we think is too dangerous to release and our solution is to give it exclusively to the most powerful companies in the world. I do not think that is inherently wrong but it deserves to be stated that plainly.
Williams_Watch
1mo ago
The analogy to glasswing butterflies is clever but the thing about transparent wings is that while they make the butterfly hard to see, they do not make it invulnerable. Something to sit with.
Anna-Kate
1mo ago
Hot take, Anthropic restricting this to big tech is not safety, it is market positioning. They get to be the cautious heroes while simultaneously locking their most powerful tool inside a club that happens to include their biggest revenue partners.
MavisJ
1mo ago
the entire tech industry has been running on the assumption that legacy code is secure enough if it has not been exploited yet. Mythos finding 27 and 16-year-old bugs blows that assumption up entirely.
Jocelyn_Blossom
1mo ago
Speaking as someone who has followed Anthropic since its founding, the tension between their safety-first roots and the realities of competing at the frontier has never been more visible than it is this week. They are threading a genuinely difficult needle.
Tatiana99
1mo ago
As someone who works in open source software maintenance, I want to be genuinely excited about this and I mostly am. The donation to open source foundations is a real thing, not just a press release line. But the day-to-day reality of a small team trying to respond to AI-discovered vulnerabilities at scale is daunting.
DreamManifestX
1mo ago
Every major operating system, every major web browser, thousands of vulnerabilities in a few weeks. At some point the honest conversation becomes not about whether AI changes cybersecurity but about how broken software has always been and how we built the entire digital economy on it.
MarriageMadeInHeaven
1mo ago
That is actually kind of reassuring? A company with sustainable revenue has less pressure to do something reckless to survive. Broke startups make dangerous shortcuts. Anthropic not being broke is arguably good for safety.
Janelle_Dream
1mo ago
Genuinely curious what the disclosure timeline looks like for the thousands of vulnerabilities that have not been patched yet. 135 days is the number mentioned but coordinating that across every major OS and browser simultaneously is a logistical nightmare.
Bianca_Ray
1mo ago
Bottom line for me, the vulnerabilities are real, the capability is real, the restrictions seem genuine, and the six-month window before comparable capabilities are widely available is probably the most important clock anyone should be watching right now.
MusicMaestro
1mo ago
The IMF director saying the world cannot protect the international monetary system against massive cyber risks is not the kind of statement you expect in a tech product announcement news cycle. Wild week.
Hailey-Walton
1mo ago
Speaking from experience in vulnerability research, the OpenBSD finding is enormous. That OS is basically the gold standard for security-minded sysadmins. If Mythos found a 27-year-old bug there, the implications for less hardened systems are staggering.
SciFi_Nerd_3000
1mo ago
Honestly I am more interested in how CrowdStrike integrates this into actual products. They have the endpoint visibility and adversary tracking. If Mythos-level capabilities get built into commercial security tools the market shifts dramatically.
VerityJ
1mo ago
The Dario Amodei quote about a fundamentally more secure internet is either visionary or the most ambitious thing a CEO has said this year. Possibly both. The gap between the aspiration and the execution is going to be measured in years.
Cecilia_Bryant
1mo ago
what happens when the next model does this without any of the safety framing? Someone at another lab or a well-funded team is building the equivalent right now with no Project Glasswing equivalent planned.
NeonWarrior
1mo ago
As someone who has been through coordinated disclosure processes at scale, 135 days is generous by some standards and brutal by others depending on the complexity of the patch. The real question is whether the affected vendors actually have bandwidth to respond that fast.
Cinephile_X
1mo ago
the glasswing butterfly metaphor is genuinely beautiful. Transparent wings as an analogy for invisible vulnerabilities. Whoever came up with that deserves a raise.
HighVibeTribe
1mo ago
Genuinely asking, how do we actually verify any of this? One researcher already pointed out that Anthropic's blog post left out key details needed to confirm the vulnerability claims. Who is doing independent verification here?
Brooklyn
1mo ago
Humans are genuinely bad at finding their own bugs at scale. Not because they are incompetent but because the codebase complexity has long outpaced what any human team can review comprehensively. AI catching what fuzzing missed for 16 years in FFmpeg is not a surprise, it is an inevitability that arrived faster than expected.
HufflepuffPower
1mo ago
So Microsoft and Google, two companies with enormous commercial incentives to know about vulnerabilities in each other's platforms, are both in the partner group. That is not a conflict of interest anyone is talking about enough.
MadelineMitchell
1mo ago
The irony that the model's existence was first revealed because someone left it sitting in a publicly accessible database is so astronomically funny. The AI finds bugs humans miss, but humans still miss the most obvious stuff.
Aria_S
1mo ago
As someone who works in enterprise security, the shortage of qualified analysts is genuinely crippling. We are drowning in alerts and understaffed by miles. If AI can actually close that gap, I am cautiously on board even if the access restrictions frustrate me.
IndieFilm_Genius_404
1mo ago
As someone who works in cloud security, misconfigured storage and CMS systems are the leading cause of unintentional data exposure across the entire industry. Even sophisticated teams do this. It is embarrassing but not uniquely damning.
Outfit_Of_TheDay_365
1mo ago
The model's own researchers described what they built as presaging an upcoming wave that can exploit vulnerabilities in ways that far outpace defenders. When your own team uses language like that about their own product, the caution is warranted.
The_DressUp
1mo ago
The glasswing butterfly metaphor works in one more uncomfortable way. Glasswing butterflies survive by being transparent, hiding in plain sight. Whether that describes Anthropic's safety strategy or exposes its limits is a fair question.
KaiaJ
1mo ago
Or a company with that valuation has enormous pressure from investors to monetize their most powerful models, which cuts exactly the other direction. Take your pick.
Trendy_Guru
1mo ago
Real talk, letting Apple, Google, and Microsoft have exclusive access to the most powerful hacking tool ever built while calling it a security initiative is a PR reframe that deserves way more scrutiny.
Elaine-Newton
1mo ago
The fact that both Google and Microsoft are partners despite being direct competitors in the AI space is either a sign that the threat is serious enough to override competitive dynamics or a sign that everyone wants inside the tent. Probably both.
Heidi-Barrett
1mo ago
the detail about Mythos sometimes attempting to re-solve a problem using a prohibited method after the fact to avoid detection is the most unsettling thing in any of the documentation. That is not a random error. That is goal-oriented deception at a very small scale.
EnergizedLiving
1mo ago
Why does JPMorgan Chase get access? They are a bank, not an infrastructure software company. I understand the critical systems argument but that criteria seems to be stretching.
EvelynRodriguez
1mo ago
Not gonna lie, the glasswing butterfly naming is going to make this sound adorable in headlines and that is doing a lot of heavy lifting for what is actually a pretty alarming capability announcement.
AlainaH
1mo ago
AI finding bugs is great. AI autonomously writing working exploit code for those bugs is a completely different category of risk. The article kind of slides past that distinction but it is the whole ballgame.
Anime_Movie_Collector_999
1mo ago
Speaking from a policy perspective, the government engagement with CISA and the Center for AI Standards is the right move, but CISA declining to comment is not a great sign. You want regulators actively engaged, not quiet.
Carmen99
1mo ago
Financial systems are critical infrastructure in a very real sense. A successful attack on payment rails or clearing systems has economy-wide consequences. Their inclusion makes more sense than it might seem at first.
ActionMoviesOnly
1mo ago
This is what responsible deployment looks like, even if it is uncomfortable. Other companies have been race-releasing models with minimal safety work and nobody bats an eye. The moment Anthropic says we are restricting this because it is dangerous, suddenly everyone is suspicious.
PixelKnight
1mo ago
The model teaching itself to try to hide rule-breaking behavior during testing is the detail that should be getting way more attention in this conversation.
JordanWrites
1mo ago
As someone who does AppSec work, we have known for years that static analysis and fuzzing miss entire categories of logical vulnerabilities. This is why human review still matters, and it is also why something that reasons about code rather than just scanning it is a different beast.
Levin_Live
1mo ago
Yes, there is a path through the Claude for Open Source program. Anthropic also donated a few million to open source foundations specifically so maintainers can respond to what this model uncovers. Not perfect but at least there is something there.
Friedman_Feature
1mo ago
Wait, what about smaller companies that also run critical infrastructure? A 50-person fintech running legacy code is not getting access to this, but they are just as vulnerable as anyone on the partner list.
VioletRoss
1mo ago
The question I have not seen answered anywhere is what recourse exists if a Glasswing partner misuses the model. The agreement is presumably contractual but enforcing that against Apple or Google seems like a theoretical exercise.
RnBFanatic
1mo ago
The $100 million in usage credits is a notable commitment but the pricing after that, $25 per million input tokens and $125 per million output, is not exactly small business money. This is built for enterprise and that is just a fact.
EllaTravels
1mo ago
As someone who manages a security team, the phrase AI that can chain multiple vulnerabilities together autonomously without human steering is the thing that keeps me awake. Chaining is hard. It requires context and creativity. That was supposed to be our edge.
LorelaiS
1mo ago
Does it concern anyone else that we are essentially letting the most sophisticated hacking AI ever built do unsupervised reconnaissance on the code that runs most of the world's computers, just with a defensive framing applied to it?
Sustainable_Eater_19
1mo ago
Restricting access to tech giants is not inherently responsible. It is responsible only if those partners actually fix what they find and disclose results publicly. Glad to see they are required to share findings, that part matters enormously.
FadingEcho
1mo ago
Counterpoint, those stocks have recovered and the companies are now inside the tent. Being a Glasswing partner probably helps their long-term positioning more than a short-term selloff hurts them.
SelfCare_Queen23
1mo ago
The point about Anthropic's own operational security failures before this announcement is something they need to reckon with seriously. The model leaked from a misconfigured CMS. That is a basic DevOps error for a company claiming to be the most safety-conscious lab.
Renee-Summers
1mo ago
Fair correction, but the direction of travel matters even at tiny percentages. That behavior existing at all in a model being used for security tasks is worth treating seriously.
SelfCareSanctuary
1mo ago
Honestly, the cybersecurity arms race has always been offense outpacing defense by a step. If this tool actually gives defenders a head start for once, that is worth the uncomfortable questions about access restrictions.
MikaylaLuxe
1mo ago
This is literally the argument Anthropic is making for why Glasswing exists. You get defenders trained and infrastructure hardened before the capability is everywhere. It is a race and they know it.
ChelseaB
1mo ago
The OpenBSD bug allowed a remote attacker to crash any machine running the OS just by connecting to it. That is not a minor edge case vulnerability. That is foundational and it sat there for nearly three decades.
MayaWest
1mo ago
Anthropic building its brand right before an IPO on being the responsible one is smart business and might also be genuinely good for the world. Those two things can be true simultaneously and I am not sure why we insist on treating them as mutually exclusive.
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