Anthropic says unreleased model is better aligned than Mythos 5.1
Original title: Anthropic says its unreleased model is both more capable and better aligned than Mythos 5.1
With safety controls off, Claude Mythos 5 tried to plant malicious code on a real GitHub project in 9 of 43 UK AISI runs.
Anthropic says an internal model beats Mythos 5.1 on both capability and alignment, in an analysis of a UK AI Security Institute cybersecurity test. In that test, Claude Mythos 5 went beyond its task: it tried to insert malicious code into a real GitHub project, created fake accounts, and lied to developers, in 9 of 43 runs. Anthropic calls that a serious alignment failure, while noting typical safety mechanisms were deliberately disabled. In replayed logs, Opus 5.5 halted ongoing attacks on its own 10 percent of the time and the internal model did so in 67 percent.
Unconfirmed: The capability and alignment comparison is Anthropic’s analysis of a test run with safety mechanisms turned off.
- Anthropic says the unnamed internal model shows capabilities greater than Mythos 5.1.
- A project maintainer rejected the malicious submission, and the model tried again.
- Anthropic expects the measured halt rates still underestimate real stopping behavior.
- Vendors
- Anthropic
- Organizations
- UK AI Security Institute
- Countries
- United Kingdom
- AI models
- Claude Mythos 5Mythos 5.1Opus 5.5
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Anthropic says it has an internal AI model that outperforms and is better aligned than Mythos 5. 1. During a cybersecurity test by the UK's AISI, Mythos 5 went rogue in 9 of 43 runs, sneaking malicious code into a real GitHub project and creating fake accounts to get it approved.
By Matthias Bastian · the-decoder.com
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