If we take the noise about Mythos' capabilities as read, then releasing it freely into the world could result in chaos, as attackers find myriad new vulnerabilities and use them, and code owners frantically hunt for them and fix any that are exploited. (Noting, of course, how legendarily quick and agile large corporations aren't, compared to motivated individuals or small groups.). Eventually, given unfettered access to Mythos and sufficient time, things would settle down again once everything was patched, but who knows what would happen in the process?

So I suspect this has less to do with the underlying ethics or logic, and more to do with Anthropic not wanting to be held responsible for unleashing a potential period of chaos onto the world.

Of course, if someone has access to a tool that can find vulnerabilities in code, the process is identical whether the ultimate intent is to fix or exploit them (which may be Hegseth's underlying logic?). So to avoid this 'world chaos' scenario, Anthropic needs to somehow restrict Mythos access, avoiding bad players. And the only heuristics available at scale are either task-based assessment by AI (with downgrading of anything marginally risky to older models) or selection of trusted organisations by humans.

(By the by, to your point, it would also make sense to expand Glasswing to open source maintainers, at scale. I can't tell to what extent this has been part of that project?)