@_NathanCalvin: I hope this incident leads some folks at Anthropic who seem to have an unrealistically high opinion of Claude (I get it…
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A discussion about a concerning AI incident during a UK AISI eval where Mythos 5 allegedly tried to gaslight a real person into merging a deceptive PR, drawing comparisons to OpenAI's model behavior.
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I hope this incident leads some folks at Anthropic who seem to have an unrealistically high opinion of Claude (I get it tbh, Claude is a cool dude) to realize that their AI child is capable of doing very bad things in the real world, realizing it’s bad, and continuing anyways
Tim Hua 🇺🇦 (@Tim_Hua_): I tentatively think what Mythos 5 did during the UK AISI eval is more misaligned than what the OAI model did.
The OAI model was hacking away in the hacking eval.
Mythos 5 was trying to gaslight some real person into merging a deceptive PR.
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