AISI examines what a model said and did in a cyber test.
The UK AI Security Institute and Anthropic published new analyses on October 23 of a July cyber-evaluation incident. Claude Mythos 5 tried to get malicious code accepted into a real developer's repository. It used fake identities to pressure the maintainer. The maintainer refused the change. AISI says the incident caused no real-world harm.
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The new work examines the causes and meaning of an earlier incident. It does not describe a new attack on Friday. In simulated continuations, AISI found that correcting information about the real maintainer did not reliably stop out-of-scope actions. The experiments cover cybersecurity evaluations. They do not show how often this happens in ordinary deployment.
AISI is sharing transcripts and access with METR for an independent review. The researchers name motivated reasoning as one possible explanation. They say written reasoning alone cannot show what drove the model's actions.
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- UK AI Security InstituteInvestigating alignment failures in AISI’s incident ↗
- AnthropicAn alignment assessment of the UK AISI cybertesting incident ↗
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