NSA Deploys Anthropic's Mythos AI to Hack Foreign Targets with Team of Engineers
Oh, the sweet smell of corporate hypocrisy in the morning. A start-up built on the holy crusade of "AI safety" just shipped its elite engineers to help government spies break into foreign servers. Safety first, unless Uncle Sam is paying.
The NSA has officially integrated the proprietary Mythos model, developed by safety-obsessed startup Anthropic, into its offensive cyber operations targeting networks in China and Iran, sending a specialized team of six engineers straight to the agency.
This cozy partnership represents a wild plot twist, considering the public friction between Anthropic and the Pentagon over the weaponization of language models. It turns out their strictly worded safety guidelines only prohibit spying on American citizens, leaving a massive, convenient loophole for burning foreign digital infrastructure to the ground.
While the company prides itself on ethical AI, the actual depth of their engineers' involvement in active cyber warfare phases remains classified.
It seems the high-minded rhetoric about "aligned AI" and protecting humanity only applies when the target doesn't speak English. In the end, even the most righteous tech crusaders will gladly tweak their moral compass when the defense contracts start rolling in, proving that digital ethics are highly negotiable.
Source: Financial Times
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