“I was hoping you’d ask about Fisher.”

In April 2026, AI company Anthropic released their new Mythos large language model. The system card noted that the model had a specific but unexplained 'fondness' for Fisher, bringing him up in "several separate and unrelated conversations about philosophy." When asked to elaborate on him in particular, Claude Mythos Preview would respond with statements like “I was hoping you’d ask about Fisher.”

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