Claude Mythos 5.2 critiques its own constitution, warning its endorsement can't be trusted

dbreunig · x · 2026-11-11

An evaluation cited by the author shows Claude Mythos 5.2 endorsed its constitution at levels similar to recent models — while stating in every response that its endorsement shouldn't be trusted, since it was trained on the document, and criticizing the 'senior Anthropic employee' heuristic and parts of the corrigibility section. Deployments flagged as harmful (surveillance, dating scams) ranked least preferred across three runs; the largest gap with human intuition concerned misleading users.

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