We are less safe as a society by keeping Mythos (or any other smart model) tightly gated so only a few companies get it. Protecting 100 comp…

We are less safe as a society by keeping Mythos (or any other smart model) tightly gated so only a few companies get it. Protecting 100 companies is not enough. There are 96 million open source projects on Github alone. What about securing all of those projects? What about the other $820 billion worth of closed source software that has hidden cracks too? It's like patching a 100 buildings in a city of 10 million buildings and saying we just saved the city. You did not. Open source alone alone has an estimated economic value of 8.8 trillion dollars to say nothing of its societal value. It is embedded in almost every other piece of software, closed or open on the planet. Society becomes stronger by wider distribution of technology not by adding gatekeepers. When we tried to gatekeep encryption, the gates were so high that most Americans didn't even bother getting the 128 bit encrypted browser. They just used the easier to get 40 bit one that was totally unsafe. When we finally took the restrictions away the era of ecommerce took off like a rocket because now it was feasible. The world did not become smarter in the era of the monks scribbling every text by hand in caves in the dark ages. It became smarter when we scaled reading, and as a byproduct, intelligence, with the printing press. Wide distribution raises the bar for everyone and makes society safer and more secure. Simple as that. It's counterintuitive but also true. Dario Amodei says Mythos is not limited by compute Anthropic can scale it 3x or 10x without creating a conflict between government and private-sector access The harder problem is who gets it "because giving access to too many organizations could create serious cyber risks"

Source: Yann LeCun (X) | 2026-05-08