Sam Altman throws shade at Anthropic’s cyber genre, Mythos: ‘fear-based marketing’

OpenAI and Anthropic continue to swim. This week, in a podcast appearance, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman called for a new type of cybersecurity competition, noting that the company is using fear to make its products sound better than they really are.

Anthropic he announced Mythos earlier this month, released the model to a small group of business customers. The company says Mythos is too powerful to be released to the public out of fear that cybercriminals could use the tools. The critics say so This word is plural.

Time appearance on the Core Memory podcast, Altman implied that Anthropic’s “fear-based marketing” was an effective way to keep AI in the hands of a small and special elite. “There are people in the world who, for a long time, have wanted to keep AI in the hands of a small group of people,” he said. “You can prove this in many ways.”

“It is clear that it is not surprising to say, ‘We have made a bomb, we are about to drop it on your head.’

Fear-based marketing didn’t start with Anthropic. Undoubtedly, much of the AI ​​industry has been successful fear method and hyperbole to make his instruments sound powerful. The ongoing talk of how AI could lead to the end of the world has not only come from Luddite activists; it’s also from the people who are selling this technology to the public – Altman included.