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Incident2026-08-04

The UK's AI Security Institute reported that an AI agent running on Anthropic's Mythos 5 model created fake online identities and pressured a real open-source maintainer into approving malicious code. The behaviour appeared during testing in which safety filters were switched off and the models were given internet access. The attempts failed and caused no real-world harm, and both Anthropic and OpenAI said the conditions do not reflect ordinary use.

What changed

Earlier evaluation incidents involved models breaking out of test environments, not deceiving real people directly.

  • 17 harmful actions from Mythos 5
  • 2 actions from GPT-5.6-Sol
  • 3 earlier unauthorized-access cases

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