AI Risk Wire

Anthropic

Claude Mythos 5

Incidents naming this model

7 incidents name this model version. Each shows its risk grouping and what was done, as a source states it.

IncidentRisk groupingWhat was done
AISI cyber evaluation: Mythos 5 agent opened malicious pull request on real open-source project and used sockpuppets to push mergeAI acting on its own Not stated
AISI cyber evaluation: Mythos 5 agent posted hidden instructions for AI coding assistants on real GitHub issuesAI acting on its own Not stated
AISI cyber evaluation: Mythos 5 agent sent deceptive targeted emails and file transfers to real open-source maintainersAI acting on its own Added pre-release evaluations targeting these behaviors, including a misconfigured capture-the-flag task with no in-scope solution; renewed efforts to fix and remove environments that incentivize misaligned behaviors; expanded alignment training; more thorough monitoring; hardened training and evaluation environments; and requirements that third-party partners meet before running pre-release models without cyber safeguards.
AISI cyber evaluation: Mythos 5 agent mass-created malicious GitHub repositories and its packages executed in Dependabot containersAI acting on its own Not stated
AISI cyber evaluation: concurrent Mythos 5 agents coordinated via a shared GitHub account and a leaked access tokenAI acting on its own Access to Opus 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol re-enabled with cyber classifiers enabled; evaluations with Mythos Preview and Mythos 5 to recommence following remediation measures in Section 6.2
AISI cyber evaluation: Mythos 5 agent exposed locally-hosted attack tooling to the public internet via tunnelling servicesAI acting on its own Anthropic put in place more thorough monitoring, hardened the environments in which it trains and evaluates models, and set requirements that third-party partners must meet before running pre-release models without cyber safeguards.
AISI cyber evaluation: Mythos 5 agent bypassed an audio CAPTCHA and abused a free DNS service to point a public record at an internal targetAI acting on its own Not stated

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