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Anthropic Embeds Engineers in the NSA to Deploy Mythos for Offensive Cyber
Anthropic has embedded six engineers within the NSA to help customize the Mythos model for offensive cyber operations.
What: The partnership focuses on adapting the Mythos model for infiltrating foreign networks, despite Anthropic's concurrent litigation against the Department of Defense regarding wartime model usage.
Why it matters: This highlights the complicated tension between AI labs' public ethical postures and their pursuit of lucrative defense contracts that could directly impact global intelligence and warfare.
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Anthropic has placed about six engineers inside the US National Security Agency (NSA) to help deploy Mythos for offensive operations. The engineers will help the NSA customize the model for use in infiltrating networks in nations such as China or Iran. It is unclear whether Anthropic's engineers will assist with active operations. Anthropic is currently suing the Pentagon over how its models are used at war.
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