Sam Altman says Anthropic's using fear-based marketing to promote Mythos

Fear sells? OpenAI CEO calls out Anthropic's approach for advertising its new model.

Claude Mythos is the latest buzzword in the AI industry. For those who don't know, Mythos is a new AI model by Anthropic that is claimed to be so powerful it can bypass sophisticated cybersecurity measures used by organizations and outperform humans in this field. Such a tool could, in theory, help hackers identify and exploit vulnerabilities faster and more efficiently.

Following Anthropic's claims about its latest achievements, governments and organizations around the world have raised alarms. However, at least one person remains unconvinced by Anthropic's claims about Mythos: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. In a recent appearance on the Core Memory podcast, Altman accused Anthropic of using fear-based marketing to promote Claude Mythos.

The OpenAI CEO also suggested that the hype around Claude Mythos is a way to keep advanced AI under control and in the hands of a select group of people. Anthropic has not yet released Claude Mythos to the public; instead, it has granted access to a limited group of enterprise customers. Some of the early testers reportedly include Google, Microsoft, Amazon Web Services, Nvidia, and JPMorgan Chase.

"There are people in the world who, for a long time, have wanted to keep AI in the hands of a smaller group of people," Altman said. "You could justify that in a lot of different ways, and some of it's real -- like there are going to be legitimate safety concerns. But if what you want is like, "We need control of AI, just us, because we're the trustworthy people, I think fear-based marketing is probably the most effective way to justify that."

Altman also criticized the current situation, saying it's like building a bomb and then selling a shelter for a hefty price. "It is clearly incredible marketing to say, 'We have built a bomb. We were about to drop it on your head.

We will sell you a bomb shelter for $100 million to run across all your stuff, but only if we pick you as a customer," Altman added.

Anthropic previously claimed that Mythos Preview has been able to discover "thousands of high-severity vulnerabilities, including some in every major operating system and web browser."

Claude Mythos is currently available only to a small group of enterprise customers, and there is still no independent way to verify Anthropic's claims regarding the system's capabilities.