In April this year, the San Francisco-based AI research company Anthropic released a 245-page document describing its latest large language model (LLM), Claude Mythos Preview. When discussing “noteworthy behaviors and anecdotes” from the LLM, Anthropic noted that the model exhibited a particular affinity for the cultural theorist Mark Fisher, bringing him up unprompted in various unrelated conversations about philosophy. According to Anthropic, …