Daniela and Dario Amodei, co-founders of Claude, predicted their own model would get banned. Then it happened.
"This thing kind of seems like a weapon. We probably shouldn't give it to everyone right away" - Dario, on Mythos
In his Oprah interview he described Mythos as better than human engineers at breaking into code - the exploits behind ransomware on hospitals.
So they never released it publicly.
Then the warning came true. On June 12 Anthropic shipped Fable 5, the public Mythos-class model.
3 days later a jailbreak unlocked that exact "weapon" capability and the US government forced Fable 5 and Mythos 5 offline worldwide.
Too dangerous to release, banned 3 days after launch. He saw it coming.
Who decides when a model is safe: the lab, or the government?
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