Anthropic again proves it is by far the smartest AI company on public relations.

It’s positioning itself, clearly and deliberately, to be ethical and responsible, and betting on thus being a competitive advantage, at just the moment so many companies have abandoned even the pretense of caring about these issues.

Project Glasswing is an effort to collaborate with other industry players, including its competitors, on addressing cybersecurity vulnerabilities. The new model, Mythos, won’t be generally released, as the risks of misuse are too high.

“The idea, in part, is simply to give the developers of the world's foundational tech platforms time to turn Mythos Preview on their own systems so they can mitigate vulnerabilities and exploit chains that the model develops in simulated attacks. More broadly, Anthropic emphasizes that the purpose of convening the effort is to kickstart urgent exploration of how AI capabilities across the industry are on the precipice, the company says, of upending current software security and digital defense practices around the world.

“The real message is that this is not about the model or Anthropic,” Logan Graham, the company's frontier red team lead, tells WIRED. “We need to prepare now for a world where these capabilities are broadly available in 6, 12, 24 months. Many things would be different about security. Many of the assumptions that we’ve built the modern security paradigms on might break.”

Separately, the WSJ has an article on AI giants going on a “charm offensive.” Only Anthropic is convincing.

Responsible deployment of powerful tech

Collaboration rather than competition

Thought about social impact

Careful positioning and signaling on all the above

They are playing this so carefully. I’m impressed.