Abstract
When a private frontier lab restricts its most capable model to a roster of approved organizations, it performs an act of international allocation without an international mandate. This paper analyses the Claude Mythos access regime, documents the absence of Global South partners, and frames the question that defines this decade of AI governance: who decides which countries reach the frontier, and by what right?
Why this paper exists
Anthropic’s Claude Mythos is available only to approved organizations. Twelve partners were named. Zero are from the Global South. This paper asks the governance question no one else was asking from the South.
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