Anthropic has announced its new model, “Mythos,” a technological breakthrough of unprecedented scale. This technology can automatically find critical system vulnerabilities in weeks, posing a systemic risk that would surpass any existing defense. Despite the potential for immediate massive profit, the company has voluntarily decided not to release the technology to the public to prevent it from falling into malicious hands. Instead, Anthropic has formed a private alliance with 19 companies to secure operating systems and browsers before this technology becomes accessible. This act empirically demonstrates that responsibility and coordination for defense arise from spontaneous order, not institutional coercion. In response, apostles of Marxist and populist statism will immediately demand coercive government intervention, calling for the state to take dictatorial control of AI development. However, the free market, through the price system and voluntary exchange, has already issued its inescapable verdict: consumers massively value and pay for tools that multiply their productivity. Anthropic's response has been a masterful slap in the face of the fatal arrogance of interventionism.
