I am catching glimpses in my feed that there is a backlash against Mythos as 'marketing hype,' and it is a little confusing. I don't think a…

I am catching glimpses in my feed that there is a backlash against Mythos as "marketing hype," and it is a little confusing. I don't think anyone who has used the latest agentic coding tools, would think that expecting large-scale cybersecurity implications of increasingly good AI models is unbelievable, especially after reading the red team reports. It feels like a better place to start is to assume that there are new risks, and then we can all laugh at Anthropic and pat each other on the back if there are not. Also, while the AI labs certainly are impressed by their own accomplishments and benchmarks are flawed, I would note that both publicly and privately, Mythos seems to be taken seriously at a lot of large institutions and organizations filled with smart people who would rather not be worried about a new cybersecurity risk. Finally, I am not sure "our product is dangerous and we need to alert the government to that" is the sales pitch to the corporate world that critics seem to think it is.

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Source: Ethan Mollick (X) | 2026-04-13