Dev questions why Anthropic flags theorem prover bugs as a cyber security concern
ethanbodzioney · x · 2026-11-10
A developer publicly questioned Anthropic's safeguards: why treat bug-hunting in theorem provers as a security concern, when the worst case is 'a proof of false that gives a mathematician a headache'? Replies pushed back: LLMs increasingly write formal proofs for security and cryptographic verification, so prover bugs may matter — while others agreed Anthropic's 'cyber safeguards' do more harm than good here.
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