<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">On Wed, Apr 8, 2026 at 10:46 AM Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:</span></div></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><font size="4" face="georgia, serif"><i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>It'll be the bombs. Almost no one will remember yet another<span class="gmail_default" style=""> </span>incremental step in AI improvement,</i></font></blockquote><div><br></div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>Wars are a tragedy but unfortunately, as any student of history can tell you, are also a dime a dozen, however this is fundamentally new.</b></font><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" size="4"><b> Anthropic's new AI not only found </b><u style="font-weight:bold">thousands of high-severity and zero-day vulnerabilities</u><b> , within hours of its discovery it also found practical ways to exploit them. For example, Claude Mythos found a bug that had been in</b><u style="font-weight:bold"> OpenBSD</u><b>, an open-source operating system that was specifically designed to be difficult to hack, for 27 years but nobody had noticed it before. However Mythos found it and found a way to use it to take control of any computer that used OpenBSD. And Apple's </b><u style="font-weight:bold">macOS</u><b> uses it, and so does </b><u style="font-weight:bold">Windows 10</u><b>, and </b><u style="font-weight:bold">Android</u><b>, and many </b><u style="font-weight:bold">Internet routers</u><b>.</b></font></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><br></div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" size="4"><b>And Mythos found a 16 year old bug in <u>FFmpeg</u> that would enable it to control any computer that uses that, and <u>YouTube</u> does<span class="gmail_default" style="">,</span> as do many if not most tools that process video or audio. Mythos even found a devastating bug in the <u>Linux Kernel</u> that would enable a standard user to gain full privileged access th<span class="gmail_default" style="">at</span> only the system administrator is supposed to have.<span class="gmail_default" style=""> </span>I<span class="gmail_default" style="">t</span> found zero-day vulnerabilities in <u>every major operating system and every major web browser<span class="gmail_default" style="">.</span></u></b></font><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="4"><u><br></u></font></div><div><div><span style="font-size:large"><b style=""><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><span class="gmail_default" style="">For the very first time a vast non-human intelligence has the power to devastate the world's economy and plunge civilization into chaos. And you say it's just hype, nothing special, just an incremental improvement! </span></font></b></span></div><div><span style="font-size:large"><b style=""><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><span class="gmail_default" style=""><br></span></font></b></span></div><div><span style="font-size:large"><b style=""><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><span class="gmail_default" style=""> John K Clark</span></font></b></span></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="4"><u><br></u></font><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" size="4"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></font></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div><br></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">plications of the war with Iran, and I am sure I will again soon. But I want to interrupt that thought to highlight a stunning advance in artificial intelligence — one that arrived sooner than expected and that will have equally profound geopolitical implications." [...]<br>
><br>
> "Holy cow! Superintelligent A.I. is arriving faster than anticipated, at least in this area. We knew it was getting amazingly good at enabling anyone, no matter how computer literate, to write software code. But even Anthropic reportedly did not anticipate that it would get this good, this fast, at finding ways to find and exploit flaws in existing code. Anthropic said it found critical exposures in every major operating system and Web browser, many of which run power grids, waterworks, airline reservation systems, retailing networks, military systems and hospitals all over the world." [...]<br>
><br>
> " I’m really not being hyperbolic when I say that kids could deploy this by accident. Mom and Dad, get ready for:<br>
> "Honey, what did you do after school today?”<br>
> “Well, Mom, my friends and I took down the power grid. What’s for dinner?”<br>
> That is why Anthropic is giving carefully controlled versions to key software providers so they can find and fix the vulnerabilities before the bad guys do — or your kids." [...]<br>
><br>
> "It will be interesting to see what history remembers most about April 7, 2026 — the postponed U.S. release of bombs over Iran or the carefully controlled release of the Claude Mythos Preview by Anthropic and its technical allies."<br>
> ==<br>
><br>
><br>
</blockquote></div></div></div></div>