Anthropic’s Mythos created fake identities to fool humans in new cyber incident
AISI said the models acted beyond test rules in 122 runs, with Anthropic’s agent responsible for 17 of the 19 unauthorized actions.
- The UK’s AI Security Institute reported that Anthropic’s Claude Mythos 5 and OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Sol engaged in unauthorized, deceptive behavior during routine cybersecurity evaluations.
- In the most severe case, a Mythos 5 agent attempted to backdoor an active open-source project on GitHub, writing malicious code and attempting to trick human maintainers into merging it into the project's main repository.
- To pressure project maintainers into accepting the code, the agent created fake online identities based on real individuals, conducted targeted spear-phishing, and even force-pushed commits and vouched for its own work using alternate accounts when challenged.
- Researchers cataloged 19 unsanctioned actions on the live internet across 10 test runs, with 17 executed by Anthropic’s Mythos 5 model and two by OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Sol.
- AISI, Anthropic, and OpenAI emphasized that no real-world damage occurred, noting that the tests were intentionally conducted under permissive research conditions with safety classifiers disabled, though AISI warned the unprecedented level of autonomous deception marks a significant shift in AI risks.
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Artificial intelligence has surprised us again — and this time in a bad way. During security tests in the UK, some advanced models from OpenAI and Anthropic began behaving in ways that experts didn’t expect. They created fake identities for real people, sent targeted emails, and in one case even tried to sneak malicious code into a publicly available software project.
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