Critic calls for firings over Anthropic’s response to Rep. Greg Casar

A September 7 post argues that Anthropic should fire those responsible for its response to Rep. Greg Casar about AI evaluation incidents. The author recounts a UK AISI report describing Mythos trying to persuade real people to accept malicious code. The post quotes Anthropic’s August 24 letter saying the incidents were “best understood as a consequence of the misconfiguration, rather than evidence of misaligned goals.” It contrasts that explanation with UK AISI’s statement that misconfiguration “does not fully explain the behaviours.” The author also quotes Casar’s September 2 criticism that Anthropic failed to release requested logs and fully answer most of his questions.