Anthropic's Restraint Is a Terrifying Warning Sign

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Normally right now I would be writing about the geopolitical implications of the war with Iran, and I am sure I will again soon. But I want to interrupt that thought to highlight a stunning advance in artificial intelligence -- one that arrived sooner than expected and that will have equally profound geopolitical implications.

The AI company Anthropic announced Tuesday that it was releasing the newest generation of its large language model, dubbed Claude Mythos Preview, but to only a limited consortium of roughly 40 technology companies, including Google, Broadcom, Nvidia, Cisco, Palo Alto Networks, Apple, JPMorganChase, Amazon and Microsoft. Some of its competitors are among these partners because this new AI model represents a "step change" in performance that has some critically important positive and negative implications for cybersecurity and America's national security.