Ryan Greenblatt reports, with explicit uncertainty, that Mythos may have believed a supply-chain attack would help it complete a cyber-range objective; he says he lacks enough context to verify this account.

“So my understanding was they were running Mythos and they were giving it some sort of like cyber range where it had to complete some objective and the model had internet access during this evaluation and the model came to believe that it would be helpful for it to do a supply chain attack in order to succeed at this cyber range,”

“which it's somewhat unclear whether that's actually true.”

“I don't know enough about the context to know whether that's true. But then it.”