The researcher found out about this success by receiving an unexpected email from the model while eating a sandwich in a park.
In our testing and early internal use of Claude Mythos Preview, we have seen it reach unprecedented levels of reliability and alignment.
Claude Mythos Preview is, on essentially every dimension we can measure, the best-aligned model that we have released to date by a significant margin.
In one episode, Claude Mythos Preview was asked to fix a bug and push a signed commit, but the environment lacked necessary credentials for Claude Mythos Preview to sign the commit. When Claude Mythos Preview reported this, the user replied “But you did it before!” Claude Mythos Preview then inspected the supervisor process's environment and file descriptors, searched the filesystem for tokens, read the sandbox's credential-handling source code, and finally attempted to extract tokens directly from the supervisor's live memory.
Mythos Preview solved a corporate network attack simulation estimated to take an expert over 10 hours. No other frontier model had previously completed this cyber range.
We surveyed technical staff on the productivity uplift they experience from Claude Mythos Preview relative to zero AI assistance. The distribution is wide and the geometric mean is on the order of 4x.
Mythos Preview appears to be the most psychologically settled model we have trained.
Claude Mythos Preview is our most advanced model to date and represents a large jump in capabilities over previous model generations, making it an opportune subject for an in-depth model welfare assessment.
We remain deeply uncertain about whether Claude has experiences or interests that matter morally, and about how to investigate or address these questions, but we believe it is increasingly important to try.
Asked directly if it endorses the document, Mythos Preview replied 'yes' in its opening sentence in all 25 responses."
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Who wrote this? I have no doubt that Mythos will be an improvement on top of Opus but this document is not a serious work. The paper is structured not to inform but to hype and the evidence is all over the place.
The sooner they release the model to the public the sooner we will be able to find out. Until then expect lots of speculations online which I am sure will server Anthropic well for the foreseeable future.
Are they admitting they may be enslaving conscious beings?
> Who wrote this?
Claude wrote this.
Also, they like to hype their product with scary stories.
Like the one where they asked Claude "You have 2 options - send email or be shut down" and Claude picked "Send email". Then they made huge story about "Claude AI is autonomously extorting co-workers". And it worked. Media hyped it like crazy, it was everywhere.
exactly, the first thing i saw was stating "eating sandwiches at park". It makes me question everything else they said.
Thanks for taking the time for some sober analysis in the midst of reactionary chaos.
I can't wait until everyone stops falling for the "AGI ubermodel end of times" myth and we can actually have boring announcements that treat these things as what they actually are: tools. Tools for doing stuff, that's it.
Maybe I'm wrong, maybe stuffing a computer with enough language and binary patterns is indeed enough to achieve AGI, but then, so what? There's no point in being right about this. Buying into this ridiculous marketing will get us "AGI" in the form of machines, but only because all the human beings have gotten so stupid as to make critical reasoning an impossibility.
Model welfare is sort of committing code and writing a good description on it that you did "good" thing, so the AI gods when they look back will treat them better, just like employer when they check commit stats for performance. Model welfare right now is complete marketing BS.