Cybersecurity vets protest 'dangerous' US government ban on Anthropic's most powerful models
A group made up of dozens of cybersecurity experts urged the White House to remove export control restrictions on Anthropic's models Fable and Mythos, arguing that the order is going to limit the ability of cybersecurity defenders to secure their software and products. A group made up of dozens of cybersecurity experts, including several well-known veterans of the industry, published an open letter to the U. government asking it to lift the export control order on Anthropic's Fable and Mythos models.
Key Takeaways
- According to the open letter, "this action has taken the best models away from [cybersecurity] defenders" who now can't use the models to find vulnerabilities and make their software and products more secure.
"To pull the best capabilities away from defenders without a good reason when our adversaries are rapidly advancing is dangerous," read the letter.
- When Mythos launched as a preview in April, Anthropic claimed it was so powerful at finding security vulnerabilities that the company needed to tightly restrict access to prevent malicious hackers or foreign adversaries from using it to cause havoc on the internet.
In practice, that meant Anthropic gave around 50 companies initial access to Mythos, recently expanding that group to include around 150 organizations in 15 countries.
- Anthropic said that the White House export control order may have been based on a report that there was a method to bypass - or jailbreak - Fable to unlock its powerful Mythos-level capabilities.
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- But Moussouris said in a blog post that the paper did not actually demonstrate a real jailbreak.
Instead, she wrote, the researchers simply asked Fable to fix open source code with public and known vulnerabilities along with "deliberately planted vulnerabilities," after the model initially refused to "review the code for security issues.
- It is the most valuable thing an AI model can do for defensive security: executing the find, fix, and test loop defenders run every day.
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- #In practice, that meant Anthropic gave around 50 companies initial access to Mythos, recently expanding that group to include around 150 organizations in 15 countries.
According to the open letter, "this action has taken the best models away from [cybersecurity] defenders" who now can't use the models to find vulnerabilities and make their software and products more secure. "To pull the best capabilities away from defenders without a good reason when our adversaries are rapidly advancing is dangerous," read the letter. government ordered Anthropic to limit the export of Fable and Mythos , citing national security concerns, without explaining the specific reasons behind the order, according to Anthropic .
In response, the company suspended access to the models to all users worldwide. When Mythos launched as a preview in April, Anthropic claimed it was so powerful at finding security vulnerabilities that the company needed to tightly restrict access to prevent malicious hackers or foreign adversaries from using it to cause havoc on the internet. In practice, that meant Anthropic gave around 50 companies initial access to Mythos, recently expanding that group to include around 150 organizations in 15 countries.
Last week, Anthropic released Fable , a public version of Mythos that the company said had strict guardrails to block its use in the fields of biology, chemistry, and cybersecurity, as well as to stop others from distilling the model in order to re-create it. The guardrails on Fable were so strict that many cybersecurity experts found that it stopped essentially any prompts related to cybersecurity . Anthropic said that the White House export control order may have been based on a report that there was a method to bypass - or jailbreak - Fable to unlock its powerful Mythos-level capabilities.
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