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“AI #162: Visions of Mythos” by Zvi

Published 2 weeks, 6 days ago
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Anthropic had some problem with leaks this week. We learned that they are sitting on a new larger-than-Opus AI model, Mythos, that they believe offers a step change in cyber capabilities. We also got a full leak of the source for Claude Code. Oh, and Axios was compromised, on the heels of LiteLLM. This looks to be getting a lot more common. Defense beats offense in most cases, but offense is getting a lot more shots on goal than it used to. The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Aplocayloptimist came out this week. I gave it 4.5/5 stars, and I think the world would be better off if more people saw it. I am not generally a fan of documentary movies, but this is probably my new favorite, replacing The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters. There was also the usual background hum of quite a lot of things happening, including the latest iterations of various debates. We may or may not be doomed to die, but we are definitely doomed to repeat certain motions quite a few more times, and for people to be rather slow to update. We got some very welcome quiet on the [...]

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Outline:

(01:41) Language Models Offer Mundane Utility

(03:00) Heads In The Sand

(07:05) Huh, Upgrades

(08:10) Mythos

(12:07) Whats In A Name

(14:59) On Your Marks

(16:10) Choose Your Fighter

(16:53) Get My Agent On The Line

(17:31) Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon

(24:33) Cyber Lack Of Security

(29:08) Fun With Media Generation

(29:50) A Young Ladys Illustrated Primer

(30:53) They Took Our Jobs

(37:45) After They Take Our Jobs

(39:16) Gell-Mann Amnesia

(41:33) Get Involved

(43:25) In Other AI News

(46:41) Show Me the Money

(51:08) Quiet Speculations

(51:59) Explaining Persistent Model Parity

(55:37) Take a Moment

(01:00:54) OpenAI: The Histories

(01:06:04) The Department of AI War

(01:12:38) Department of AI Solidarity

(01:13:46) Writing For The AIs

(01:16:42) Quickly, Theres No Time

(01:16:46) The Quest for Sane Regulations

(01:18:10) Chip City

(01:20:07) You Received The Federal Framework

(01:21:02) The Week in Audio

(01:24:22) Rhetorical Innovation

(01:27:48) I Am The Very Human Of A Frontier Language Model

(01:38:01) Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult

(01:41:22) Aligning Fake Graphs Can Also Be Difficult

(01:49:32) The Lighter Side

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First published:
April 2nd, 2026

Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/iBeTkFuQwjaRPo3Ad/ai-162-visions-of-mythos

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