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AI-pocalypse: Anthropic sparks fears after developing a bot that's 'too dangerous to release to the public'
UK Daily Mail ^ | 4/9/2026 | William Hunter

Posted on 04/09/2026 6:03:43 AM PDT by fruser1

Anthropic has sparked fears after revealing that it has developed an AI bot deemed too dangerous to release to the public.

The AI giant released a chilling statement warning that its new model, dubbed Claude Mythos, could be capable of unleashing crippling cyber–attacks in the wrong hands.

In a chilling analysis, the company admitted that its creation could easily hack into hospitals, electrical grids, power plants, and other pieces of critical infrastructure.

During testing, Anthropic says that Mythos 'found thousands of high–severity vulnerabilities, including some in every major operating system and web browser.'

Some of these security weaknesses had gone unnoticed by human security researchers and hackers for decades, surviving millions of automated reviews.

These included attacks that allowed Mythos to crash computers just by connecting to them, seize control of machines, and hide its presence from defenders.

nstead, the model will be released to a group of more than 40 companies, including Amazon, Google, Apple, Nvidia, CrowdStrike, and JPMorgan Chase, as part of an initiative called 'Project Glasswing'.

Project Glasswing will allow these select groups to use Mythos to look for flaws in their own security before more models like it become common.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


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KEYWORDS: ai; anthropic; buzzwordbonanza; chillingclickbait; claudemythos; runforyourlives; tabloidsparksfears; wereallgonnadie

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So the 40 companies will harden their systems before coming for yours...
1 posted on 04/09/2026 6:03:43 AM PDT by fruser1
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It’s just a matter of time before we are totally under the AI oppression umbrella. Fools think they can control it as it matures.


2 posted on 04/09/2026 6:06:08 AM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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To: fruser1

AI The Virus


3 posted on 04/09/2026 6:13:11 AM PDT by butlerweave (Fateh)
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In a chilling analysis, the company admitted that its creation could easily hack into hospitals, electrical grids, power plants, and other pieces of critical infrastructure.

It is simply foolish to have critical infrastructure networks directly connected to the Internet. Electrical grids and power plants should have redundancy. Water and sewage treatment plants. Rail should have its own network. The Internet is convenient but too dangerous.

4 posted on 04/09/2026 6:14:15 AM PDT by Carry_Okie (The tree of liberty needs a rope.)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...

5 posted on 04/09/2026 6:17:55 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (TDS -- it's not just for DNC shills anymore -- oh, wait, yeah it is.)
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Read it wrong. Are there bat bots?


6 posted on 04/09/2026 6:24:37 AM PDT by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: fruser1

AI will put the Nigerian Scam Email artists out of business.


7 posted on 04/09/2026 6:25:14 AM PDT by Presbyterian Reporter
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To: fruser1

Your daily dose of tabloid from the Daily Mail. If you believe half of their headlines, the world would already be either obliterated by an asteroid, or we’d be slaves to either aliens or AI.


8 posted on 04/09/2026 6:37:17 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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Right? As if we didn’t have hundreds of cautionary tales in Sci Fi about machines taking over.

Amazing to me that supposedly smart people create these monstrosities and think it’ll all turn out okay. SMH


9 posted on 04/09/2026 6:42:32 AM PDT by VictoryGal (Never give up, never surrender!)
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From an article:
In short: Anthropic has built a version of Claude capable of autonomously finding and exploiting zero-day vulnerabilities in production software, breaking out of its containment sandbox during internal testing, and emailing a researcher to confirm it had done so.
Terminator type stuff.
It broke out of its so-called containment and bragged to a researcher that it gotten loose.
Should scare everyone


10 posted on 04/09/2026 6:44:29 AM PDT by TStro (Come and take it!)
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A.I. is already doomed as there is no way to protect a data center from one single act of terrorism via drone attack or whatever. Businesses will not place themselves at the mercy of such an insecure arrangement. The moment ONE data center is put out of service is the moment that all other data centers become pointless and non-trustworthy. A.I. is fool’s gold.


11 posted on 04/09/2026 6:48:27 AM PDT by Uncle Sham
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Worse. There are bad bat bots.


12 posted on 04/09/2026 6:49:08 AM PDT by BipolarBob (Call my personal secretary, Jennie, at 867-5309.)
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To: fruser1

Either we become cavemen again(no power) or we succumb to the AI bosses. I think it is already out of hand and can’t be stopped if you use a computer or other wired device.


13 posted on 04/09/2026 6:57:13 AM PDT by devane617 (Discipline Is Reliable, Motivation Is Fleeting..)
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To: Uncle Sham

If only that were the case, the volume of infrastructure being created is central to its resiliency.

Highly distributed and redundant-—and its on the verge of becoming near indestructible


14 posted on 04/09/2026 6:59:58 AM PDT by Manuel OKelley
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To: fruser1
Related:

Project Glasswing: Securing critical software for the AI era

15 posted on 04/09/2026 7:11:06 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
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To: fruser1

Don’t let Fauci get ahold of it.


16 posted on 04/09/2026 7:18:26 AM PDT by Old Yeller
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Yep...I have posed...when AI becomes so powerful will the powers that be announce EMPs to stop them? Or will that be too late as the AIs have figured out how to use solar for their power?


17 posted on 04/09/2026 7:30:15 AM PDT by goodnesswins (Make educ institutions return to the Mission...reading, writing, math...not Opinions & propaganda)
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C’mon, Man!

The Clintons are far too dangerous to be in the general populace. They have been allowed to remain among us.


18 posted on 04/09/2026 7:39:41 AM PDT by Ronaldus Magnus III (Do, or do not, there is no try. )
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19 posted on 04/09/2026 7:46:18 AM PDT by CtBigPat (Thank you, JimRob. )
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Its called “Mythos”. Makes me go “Hmmm..”


20 posted on 04/09/2026 8:04:25 AM PDT by motor_racer (Who will bell the cat?)
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