Jack Clark, one of Anthropic’s co-founders, who also serves as head of Public Benefit for Anthropic PBC, confirmed that the AI firm had briefed the Trump administration on its new Mythos model.
The model, which was announced last week, is so dangerous that it is not released to the public, mainly because of its powerful cyber capabilities.
In an interview at Semafor World Economy Summit this week, Clark explained why the company was still cooperating with the US government while simultaneously suing them.
This March, Anthropic filed a lawsuit against Trump’s Department of Defense (DOD) after the agency labeled the company a supply chain risk. Anthropic had clashed with the Pentagon over whether the military should have unrestricted access to Anthropic’s AI systems for use cases that included mass surveillance of Americans and fully autonomous weapons. (OpenAI eventually won the deal.)
At the conference, Clark downplayed the administration’s labeling of her business as a supply chain risk, saying it was just a “close contract dispute” and that Anthropic didn’t want to get in the way of the company’s concern for national security.
“Our position is that the government needs to be aware of these things and we need to find new ways for the government to work with a private sector that is doing things that are really revolutionizing the economy, but will have aspects to them that hurt National Security, stocks and others,” Clark said. “So definitely, we’ve talked to them about the Mythos, and we’ll talk to them about the next models.”
His confirmation follows exhibitions Last week, Trump officials encouraged banks to try Mythos, including JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, Bank of America and Morgan Stanley.
Clark also addressed other aspects of AI’s impact on society during the interview, including issues such as unemployment and higher education.
Previously, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei warned that AI developments could bring unemployment in depression era numbersbut Clark slightly disagrees. He explained in the interview that Amodei believes that AI will become much more powerful than people expect very quickly, so he uses that as the basis of his estimates.
Clark, who leads a team of economists at Anthropic, said the firm so far only sees “some potential weakness in early graduate employment” in select industries. He noted, however, that Anthropic is ready in case there are major job shifts.
Pressed to say what majors students should pursue or avoid today as a result of the effects of AI, Clark would only suggest broadly that the most important majors are those that “involve synthesis across a whole variety of subjects and analytical thinking about it.”
“That’s because what AI allows us to do is it allows you to access kind of an arbitrary number of subject matter experts in different domains,” Clark said. “But the really important thing is knowing the right questions to ask and having intuitions about what would be interesting if you collide different ideas from many different disciplines.”
