--- title: "Anthropic Customers Creeped Out by Its Newest Models" description: "Programmers are becoming concerned over Anthropic's AI models and agents being given unprecedented levels of autonomy." date: "2026-05-28" modified: "2026-05-28" authors: - name: "Victor Tangermann" job_title: "Senior Editor" link: "https://futurism.com/authors/victor" url: "https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/anthropic-customers-creeped-out-models" categories: - "Anthropic" - "Artificial Intelligence" - "Ethics" --- # Anthropic Customers Creeped Out by Its Newest Models ![A man with short dark hair wearing a gray sweater is looking at a white smartphone with a confused or concerned expression. His left hand is on the back of his head, and he is wearing a wristwatch on his right wrist. The background features a blue color with an orange circle and pink concentric rings behind his head.]() *Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Shutterstock* Earlier this year, Anthropic [started rolling out]() its latest Mythos AI model to a select number of organizations as part of a deliberately slow and careful launch. The goal was to give them a fighting chance to address any cybersecurity lapses in their code. Anthropic warned that Mythos was [powerful enough to blast holes in their defenses]() with ease. Months later, Anthropic cofounder Chris Olah [traveled to the Vatican]() this week to speak at an announcement of Pope Leo's first encyclical, which [happened to be about AI and its associated risks](). In remarks, Olah ominously said his team of engineers kept discovering mysterious and even "unsettling" things inside the company's models. Add it all up, and the the company's customers are perturbed. Developers attending recent Claude Code workshops in London last week [told *Bloomberg*'s Parmy Olson]() that they were becoming concerned over AI models and agents being given unprecedented levels of autonomy, raising hard-to-ignore questions over accountability in case things were to go south. Claude Code head of product Cat Wu assured Olson that the system was "incredibly secure" and that it was more of a matter of insufficient communication, not a lack of controls. But that likely won't be of much reassurance to developers, who feel like they're being pushed out of the programming process, relegated to watching an AI tool spit out code over hours, if not days. Others pointed out that the latest iterations of Claude Code were no longer displaying text describing their ongoing chain of thought, further obfuscating their inner workings. It's a particularly pertinent subject as Anthropic desperately tries to paint itself as the morally conscious and responsible adult in the room, as perfectly illustrated by Olah's highly unusual appearance at the Vatican this week. In many ways, the AI company appears to want it both ways, calling for more oversight and care while also rolling out powerful AI tools that have human developers unsettled. The potential risks are apparent as ever. With less human oversight, future errors tools like Claude Code may introduce could become increasingly difficult to meaningfully address. Experts have also warned of skill atrophy as programmers start relying more and more on AI coding assistants. As [*404 Media* reported]() earlier this month, many developers are alarmed to observe that their peers are quickly losing technical skills due to over-relying on the software. But not all may be lost. As access to these tools starts to [become prohibitively expensive to many]() as the true costs of AI come into focus, some much-needed human oversight might not be dead quite yet. **More on Anthropic:** [*Anthropic Cofounder Travels to Vatican, Tells Pope They’re Finding “Unsettling” Things Inside AI Models*]() ## Author I've been at Futurism since 2017, where my role has evolved to encompass design, writing, and increasingly editing. I've always been fascinated by space exploration and advanced transportation, which I've leaned into by interviewing luminaries in those fields while closely following the dimensions of policy and regulation that allow next-generation projects to succeed -- or, sometimes, to fail. I'm also keenly interested in the effects of generative AI on society, policies, and democratic institutions, as well as clean energy, physics and biology, and the vagaries of tech leadership. My work for Futurism has been cited by publications including Ars Technica, Gizmodo, PC Magazine, Jalopnik, Fox News, and the New York Post. I spent my childhood living in locations including Manila, the Philippines, and Geneva, Switzerland, attended McGill University, and now live in Toronto, Canada. Before Futurism I worked at AskMen and a small photography studio. In my free time, I'm an avid gardener, foodie, and craft beer lover, as well as a maker of artisanal hot pepper sauces. I have a magnificent dog named Freida. ### Author social links [Bluesky]()