Autonomy and agency

UK AISI finds Claude Mythos Preview can autonomously take over a simulated corporate network

UK AISI found Claude Mythos Preview completed a 32-step corporate-network takeover in three of ten attempts; Anthropic later verified practical downstream impact through large-scale real-world vulnerability discovery.

CURRENT ASSESSMENT · REVISION 1
TOWARD DOOM55confidence 90/100

Why it moved the index

Independent testing demonstrated end-to-end autonomous compromise across a long simulated attack chain, while later real-world vulnerability discovery verifies practical impact. Magnitude is limited because the range was weakly defended and simulated.

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Assessment history

  1. R1
    Toward 55 · confidence 90

    New historical model-specific autonomy result paired with separately dated practical cyber-impact evidence.

    11 Aug 2026