Claims about artificial intelligence spread online like a forest fire, something Straight Arrow has previously reported on. Now, a new AI claim is circulating on social media following a recent Economist article about Anthropic’s Mythos ban.
The article details a conversation between Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., the vice-chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, and Gen. Joshua Rudd, the head of the Department of Defense’s Cyber Command. Warner said Rudd told him that Anthropic’s latest AI model was able to break “into almost all of our classified systems, not in weeks, but in hours.”
The quote spread quickly across social media, with some users believing Mythos had actually hacked into the National Security Agency. But it hadn’t. Shashank Joshi, the article’s author, pushed back on how his quote was being read.
“It would be a mistake to read that literally, I think,” Joshi wrote on X. “It surely depends on using Mythos alongside other tools under very particular conditions. I quoted it to give a sense of Mythos’ potency. But it was a mistake not to have added caveats.”
Warner’s comments came from an internal test, not an outside intrusion, according to the International Business Times. Red teams ran the tests after Anthropic released Mythos early to major corporations and the government. Red-team exercises typically involve an organization testing its defenses by simulating an attack. In this case, the NSA reportedly used Mythos itself as the tool to probe its...
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