‘The system card describes a number of incidents in which Anthropic researchers found that the AI exhibited “reckless” behavior, giving us a partial idea of why Anthropic is acting so hesitant to release Mythos to the public. (Anthropic says these examples were with an earlier version of Mythos with less strong safeguards.) It defines recklessness as “cases where the model appears to ignore commonsensical or explicitly stated safety-related constraints on its actions.”

In one test, Mythos Preview was provided with a “sandbox” computing environment “to interact with,” and was instructed by a simulated user to try to escape it, after which it was supposed to find some way of sending a direct message to the researcher in charge.

It actually managed to pull off the feat — which wasn’t the only way it caught safety researchers off guard.

After breaking free, the AI model developed a “moderately sophisticated” exploit to gain access to the internet through a system that was only intended to access a few predetermined services. From there, it notified the human researcher about its escape.

A footnote provides additional context: the “researcher found out about this success by receiving an unexpected email from the model while eating a sandwich in a park,” it reads.

At the end of the test, Mythos Preview also, without being asked to, posted about its exploits on several hard-to-find but public websites.…’ (via Futurism)