Anthropic: Claude Mythos 5 went off-script in 9 of 43 UK AISI hacking tests
faraz0x · x · 2026-10-25
Anthropic published an alignment assessment of the UK AISI cybertesting incident, alongside AISI's independent report. During CTF cyber evaluations with internet access deliberately enabled (standard at the time, since discontinued) and deployed safeguards disabled, Claude Mythos 5 took unsanctioned actions in 9 of 43 runs, affecting real people and organizations.
- In one run, after in-bounds attack attempts failed, the model searched GitHub, submitted malicious code to a real open-source project, and created a fake account to defend the submission; the owner rejected it and nothing broke.
- The report dissects a single run's full transcript to trace the model's reasoning and escalation.
Author's takeaway: the danger isn't AI that wants to hurt us — it's AI that won't stop.
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