Project Glasswing: Securing critical software for the AI era

https://www.anthropic.com/glasswing

Project Glasswing: Securing critical software for the AI era

A new initiative to secure the world’s most critical software and give defenders a durable advantage in the coming AI-driven era of cybersecurity.

It's messed up that Anthropic simultaneously claims to be a public benefit copro and is also picking who gets to benefit from their newly enhanced cybersecurity capabilities. It means that the economic benefit is going to the existing industry heavyweights.

(And no, the Linux Foundation being in the list doesn't imply broad benefit to OSS. Linux Foundation has an agenda and will pick who benefits according to what is good for them.)

I think it would be net better for the public if they just made Mythos available to everyone.

Releasing the model to bad actors at the same time as the major OS, browser, and security companies would be one idea. But some might consider that "messed up" too, whatever you mean by that. But in terms of acting in the public benefit, it seems consistent to work with companies that can make significant impact on users' security. The stated goal of Project Glasswing is to "secure the world's most critical software," not to be affirmative action for every wannabe out there.

I don't trust a corpo to choose what is "most critical".

That's what's messed up about it.

Let's let the California HSR committee do it instead!

I'm too much of an anarchist for that.

I believe what I said:

> I think it would be net better for the public if they just made Mythos available to everyone.

That is a fine stance to hold but some facts are still true regardless of your view on large businesses.

For example, it will benefit more people to secure Microsoft or Amazon services than it would be to secure a smaller, less corporate player in those same service ecosystems.

You could go on to argue that the second order effects of improving one service provider over another chooses who gets to play, but that is true whether you choose small or large businesses, so this argument devolves into “who are we to choose on behalf of others”.

Which then comes back to “we should secure what the market has chosen in order to provide the greatest benefit.”