🔒 Mythos versus logos: about fear and the sickle
On April 7, Anthropic announced something unusual. A new AI model called Mythos is reportedly so dangerous that the company has chosen not to make it publicly available. Access is being granted to a select handful of corporations: Apple, Microsoft, Google, Nvidia, JPMorgan Chase, and soon also British banks. The rest of the world has…
The very name of the model should give you pause. The Greeks distinguished between mythos and logos. Mythos is a foundational story, a mythical narrative. Logos is reasoning and rational argument. From Plato to the Stoics, logos displaced mythos as the proper instrument of knowledge. A company whose very name derives from the Greek anthropos named its most dangerous product Mythos, not Logos. Rather than a coincidence, it’s a communications strategy.
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