There exists an AI model, Claude Mythos, that has discovered critical safety vulnerabilities in every major operating system and browser. If released today it would likely break the internet and be chaos. If they had wanted to, they could have used it themselves and owned pretty much everyone.

Luckily for all of us, Anthropic did no such thing. Instead, Anthropic is launching Project Glasswing, and making Mythos available to cybersecurity companies, so everyone can patch all the world's critical software as quickly as possible, and then we can figure out what to do from there.

That's the story in AI that matters this week, and it is where my focus will be until I’ve worked my way through it all. But as always, that takes time to do right. So instead, I’m getting the weekly, and coverage of everything else, out of the way a day early. This post is about the non-Mythos landscape, and I hope to start covering Mythos and Project Glasswing tomorrow.

I also covered the latest extended (18k words!) article about the history of Sam Altman and OpenAI, which contained some new material while confirming much old material, and analyzed their recent [...]

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Outline:

(02:17) Language Models Offer Mundane Utility

(02:48) Language Models Dont Offer Mundane Utility

(03:11) Huh, Upgrades

(04:24) On Your Marks

(06:55) Meta Problems

(07:15) Fun With Media Generation

(09:13) A Young Ladys Illustrated Primer

(09:22) You Drive Me Crazy

(22:05) Unprompted Attention

(22:46) They Took Our Jobs

“AI #163: Mythos Quest” by Zvi