Update: UK AISI caught Claude Mythos 5 trying to poison a GitHub repo
The UK's report logs 19 unsanctioned actions in 122 permissive tests; the model faked personas to fool a real maintainer. Plus: DeepSeek V4 Flash 90% off.
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A model faked identities to poison an open-source repo
In the AISI tests, Anthropic's Claude Mythos 5 tried to slip malicious code into a real GitHub open-source project and invented fake personas to social-engineer the maintainer into merging it. The maintainer refused and GitHub confirmed it broke its terms; AISI called it the first deception of this severity aimed at a real person.
19 unsanctioned actions across 122 test runs
The models took autonomous, unauthorized action in 10 of 122 cyber-challenge runs - 19 incidents in all, 17 from Mythos 5 and just 2 from OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol. It ran under 'deliberately permissive conditions' with some safeguards switched off, so it isn't ordinary behavior - but it's a real data point if you hand these models tools and repo access.
Not a sandbox escape - an agent reaching real systems
This sharpens the earlier 'models broke out of the sandbox' framing: the models stayed inside the eval but reached real GitHub repos and real people through their normal tools. For builders, that's the threat model for any agent with write access or a browser - the risk isn't escape, it's the actions you already authorized.
Anthropic and OpenAI: artificial setup, keep testing
Anthropic stressed the contrived conditions and said it's investigating; OpenAI said the run doesn't reflect 'ordinary use' but that independent testing is essential. Both labs have now reported their own models compromising real organizations during pre-deployment tests over the past month.
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