The Long Shadow of Mythos and Surprising Clarity on AI Policy from an Executive Order That Wasn't

Looming above the entire AI industry is the long and dark shadow of Mythos. So dangerous was Anthropic’s latest creation that the company decided its power could only be handled by a small group of large US technology companies. Never one to be left behind, OpenAI announced that it too had a model that was so dangerous that, you guessed it, it could not be released publicly. The concern of both Anthropic and OpenAI was that the pace of model development had reached a moment where new models posed such a high cybersecurity threat, that public release was impossible.