The Global Story: The AI model that’s ‘too powerful’ to be released to the public

AI 模型到底变得有多危险?

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2026-04-20

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Anthropic - one of Silicon Valley’s leading AI firms - recently announced that they have built a model which is too dangerous to be released to the public. Instead, they are only giving access to the model to a handful of big companies, to help them find security vulnerabilities.The company says the model has already found weak spots in “every major operating system and web browser”. Is this a genuine example of a company acting responsibly, or more of a carefully calibrated publicity move? We speak to the BBC’s North America tech correspondent, Lily Jamali, about whether this is a watershed moment. The Global Story brings clarity to politics, business and foreign policy in a time of connection and disruption. For more episodes, just search 'The Global Story' wherever you get your BBC Podcasts. Producers: Viv Jones and Aron Keller Digital producer: Matt Pintus Mix: Travis Evans Executive producer: James Shield Senior news editor: China Collins Credit: Jurassic Park (1993) / Dir: Stephen Spielberg / Universal Pictures Photo: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei. Reuters/Denis Balibouse.
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  • Most of us have interacted with an AI chatbot for something by now.

  • ChatGPT, Grok, Gemini, there are many.

  • But recently, Anthropic, a leading AI company and parent of the chatbot Claude,

  • announced they 've created a model that they say is too dangerous to be released to the public.

  • Obviously, capabilities in a model like this could do harm if in the wrong hands.

  • And so we won't be releasing this model widely.

  • Anthropics say that Claude Mythos Preview is frighteningly good at hacking.

  • So good, in fact, that the likes of us can't be trusted to play with it.

  • Banks, including Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan, are warning of the risks.