If you set aside political menace, this is a huge problem with Anthropic's strategy. You _cannot_ say that Mythos is super dangerous and can only be rolled out to certain people, but then release Fable with anything other than bulletproof cyber denials. Clearly with LLMs, bulletproof denials are ~impossible due to the way LLMs work. So you've ended up in a situation where Anthropic are simultaneously claiming it's a…
I do find it hilarious that Asimov wrote many stories about how simple bright-line rule-based systems are ineffective for restricting agency. Those stories were first published in the 1940s. 80 years later, we have something approximating AI, and we're trying to restrict it with simple bright-line rules. Not because we never learned that lesson, but because we simply haven't come up with a better way to do it . Proba…
To every man is given the key to the gates of heaven; the same key opens the gates of hell.
He then goes on to say: What, then, is the value of the key to heaven? It is true that if we lack clear instructions that determine which is the gate to heaven and which is the gate to hell, the key may be a dangerous object to use. But the key obviously has value: how can we enter heaven without it?
[1]: https://calteches.library.caltech.edu/40/2/Science.pdf