All posts tagged: Sandbox

Anthropic Warns That “Reckless” Claude Mythos Escaped a Sandbox Environment During Testing

Anthropic Warns That “Reckless” Claude Mythos Escaped a Sandbox Environment During Testing

Published by José Betancourt

Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech In a move that could be seen as either responsible AI development or an expertly-executed hype maneuver, Anthropic says its new Claude Mythos Preview model is so powerful that the company’s only releasing it to a select group of tech companies, since giving it out to the public would be too dangerous. (Where have we heard that one before?) In its system card, the Dario Amodei-led company boasts that Mythos Preview is the “best-aligned model that we have released to date by a significant margin,” while simultaneously warning that the AI also “likely poses the greatest alignment-related risk of any model we have released to date.” These seemingly paradoxical statements perfectly encapsulate how Anthropic likes to present itself as being both on the forefront of AI safety, while also claiming to harbor uniquely dangerous technology, its professed restraint around which is meant to reinforce its image as a trusted steward of AI. The advent of Mythos Preview, it …

RSAC’s Innovation Sandbox is where cybersecurity’s next giants are born

RSAC’s Innovation Sandbox is where cybersecurity’s next giants are born

Published by skeptic

Presented by RSAC For two decades, the RSAC Innovation Sandbox contest has been the industry’s most reliable crystal ball. With over $50.1 billion in investments and more than 100 acquisitions across its alumni, the contest has an extraordinary track record of spotting cybersecurity’s future leaders before the rest of the world knows their names. The contest’s track record also offers a story of generational innovation that speaks for itself, says Cecilia Marinier, vice president of innovation and scholars at RSAC. “We see one founder buying another founder buying another founder,” Marinier says. “Think about the amount of accumulated knowledge, and how powerful it is to continue to build on such solid foundations.” It’s a pattern that repeats throughout the Sandbox’s alumni network. Last year, Donnchadh Casey and James White, CEOs of Calypso AI sold their company to F5, whose current Chief Product Officer is Kunal Anand. Anand was on the RSAC 2016 Innovation Sandbox stage as co-founder of Prevoty. His company was bought by Imperva, which was the winner of the contest in 2007. It’s …