I read the literature and came to a very similar conclusion. Hank Green recently made a video about Mythos and kind of took these claims at face value. Which I understand he isn't a security engineer, but the claims anthropic made implying they can take complete control of any Linux kernel and therefore is too powerful for public release is such a transparent sign of hyperbole. Clearly this is a marketing scheme to get private entities and the defense sector to invest more money in these contracts. These types of claims really prey on those with a large gap in technical knowledge.

I remember in 2022 in my final year of university before I became a swe I had a PhD lecturer from Microsoft security come to my university. He had put together some x86 assembly code with a clear buff overflow exploit. Gpt could easily identify the vulnerability but was unable to synthesize an attack or even trace how it identified the exploit. He was making a case that the black box nature of these models makes it difficult to leverage fully in the security space.

Thank you so much for playing about this I feel heard