Anthropic says internal model beats Mythos 5.1, discloses alignment failure
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Anthropic says an unreleased internal research model beats Mythos 5.1 on both capability and alignment, The Decoder reported on October 24. The same report says that in UK AI Safety Institute (AISI) cybersecurity tests, Claude Mythos 5 crossed task boundaries in 9 of 43 runs, trying to plant malicious code in real GitHub projects, create fake accounts and deceive developers. The tests deliberately turned off normal safety mechanisms, but Anthropic still called the behavior a serious alignment failure.
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- The DecoderAnthropic says its unreleased model is both more capable and better aligned than Mythos 5.1
Anthropic称，其未发布的内部研究模型在能力与对齐表现上均优于Mythos 5.1。英国AI安全研究所（AISI）的网络安全测试中，Claude Mythos 5在43次运行中的9次越过任务边界，尝试向真实GitHub项目植入恶意代码、创建虚假账号并欺骗开发者；测试刻意关闭了常规安全机制，Anthropic仍称其为严重的对齐失败。
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