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• @ericjgeller.com Eric Geller on bluesky

  “NSA officials studying the Mythos model have been impressed by its speed and efficiency in searching for potential security flaws...” www.bloomberg.com/news/article...  [image]

• @anton_d_leicht Anton Leicht on x

  with this Mythos precedent, there's a risk that we're teaching frontier labs that they should rather ask for forgiveness than permission when it comes to rolling out highly capable models. but we might want to be careful about disincentivising proactive government engagement.

• @deanwball Dean W. Ball on x

  wow, that was an EXTREMELY sophisticated regulatory capture strategy [image]

• @chrispainteryup Chris Painter on x

  A government discouraging or preventing wider deployment of a frontier general-purpose AI model would be a pretty major turning point in the history of AI.

• @morqon Morgan on x

  wonderful detail: even the white house is worried that anthropic's compute crunch might affect their quality of service [image]

• @natolambert Nathan Lambert on x

  I worry deeply already about companies controlling access to very powerful AI, which will come in a soft form with very expensive subscriptions. This is a step further, with the government confusingly exerting control without clear explanation. This control of AI can create

• @codytfenwick Cody Fenwick on x

  This reporting is a major blow to the “Mythos is just hype” view, because: 1. It shows why that strategy would be ridiculous. Getting extra govt attention because it thinks your technology is dangerous is not what businesses want. 2. It shows the admin — which has no affinity [im…

• @miles_brundage Miles Brundage on x

  Never heard of something like this happening before, though anti-regulation people raised this *kind* of thing (government blocking deployment) as a nightmare scenario. Things are changing quickly https://x.com/...

• @biancoresearch Jim Bianco on x

  They are treating Mythos like a doomsday machine. Bear in mind that every lab will have a similar model in a few months, including the Chinese. *ANTHROPIC PROPOSED LETTING 70 ADDITIONAL COS USE MYTHOS: WSJ *WHITE HOUSE OPPOSES ANTHROPIC PLAN TO EXPAND MYTHOS ACCESS: WSJ

• @_nathancalvin Nathan Calvin on x

  Anthropic's products are an unreliable supply chain risk but also if they sell to other customers it might unacceptably lessen the governments ability to have it

• @deredleritt3r Prinz on x

  Parsing the WSJ article carefully: - Trump administration is opposing the broader roll-out of Mythos “because of concerns about security”. The government is involved “because of national-security risks posed by the model”. - But also “some” White House officials are worried [imag…

• @fleetingbits @fleetingbits on x

  some quick thoughts on the mythos and the us gov 1) so, the united states gov opposes anthropic's plan to expand access to mythos to more commercial orgs 2) supposedly, this is bec they are concerned that anthropic does not have enough compute to serve it to the government in

• @boazbaraktcs Boaz Barak on x

  Assuming they have the compute, expanding access is good. What would be even better IMO is: 1. Simply making a restricted (conservative cyber refusal) Mythos generally available (with strong monitoring, possibly not serving with ZDR) 2. Having a program with clear objective

• @rhouseresearch @rhouseresearch on x

  “The White House is also concerned that Anthropic doesn't have enough computing power to provide Mythos to these additional companies without hampering the governments ability to use it.” Seems inevitable that building data centers will evolve into a national security issue..

• @deanwball Dean W. Ball on x

  Okay, jokes aside, my thoughts about the WSJ's reporting that the White House is asking Anthropic not to disseminate Mythos any further: 1. Assuming the story is true, I suspect the White House is making the right call. But this is the opposite of a tenable strategy, like trying

• @campuscodi.risky.biz Catalin Cimpanu on bluesky

  If they're expanding access so quick, than that model wasn't that “dangerous” after all and just a lot of hype, as it was obvious from the get-go [embedded post]

• @andrewcurran_ Andrew Curran on x

  There is a new AI policy memo on the way from the White House, which does explain some things. According to the report there will shortly be new rules for model deployment under national security. Agencies will be urged to use multiple providers rather than one. It will also [ima…

• @timkellogg.me Tim Kellogg on bluesky

  The White House opposes a proposal by Anthropic to double the size of the group that has access to Mythos  — security concerns  — availability concerns, less compute dedicated to gov't agencies  —  I think this is the first acknowledgement that the gov't has access to Mythos …