More specifically, Anthropic claimed that during testing, Mythos found and exploited thousands of zero-day vulnerabilities across every major operating system and web browser tested.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This raised alarms around the rapid development of large-language AI models and the threat they could potentially pose to cybersecurity systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Banks in South Africa and around the world questioned whether models similar to Mythos could disrupt the stability of the global financial sector.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
To allay these concerns, Anthropic said it will not make Mythos available to the general public, but only to selected partner organisations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Through Project Glasswing, Anthropic and its partners will deploy Mythos to detect and fix potential vulnerabilities in critical cybersecurity systems before they can be exploited in cyber attacks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cGiven the rate of AI progress, it will not be long before such capabilities proliferate, potentially beyond actors who are committed to deploying them safely,\u201d Anthropic said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe fallout \u2014 for economies, public safety and national security \u2014 could be severe. Glasswing is an urgent attempt to put these capabilities to work for defensive purposes.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Partners for Project Glasswing include industry titans such as Microsoft, Apple, Google, Nvidia, and Amazon Web Services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Major cybersecurity companies, including Cisco, Palo Alto Networks, and CrowdStrike, were also announced as being involved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Anthropic said they had engaged in discussions with officials from the United States government on the potential offensive and defensive capabilities of Mythos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The company previously denied<\/a> the US Department of Defense access to its Claude model for use in mass surveillance of American citizens, as well as for developing fully autonomous weapons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n While the announcement of Mythos\u2019 capabilities sent shockwaves through the global banking sector, experts said there was no cause for immediate alarm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In an interview with CapeTalk<\/a>, Arthur Goldstuck, an industry analyst and founder of World Wide Worx, discussed whether the concerns raised held much weight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThey are well-founded, but the level of urgency perhaps isn\u2019t as great as it\u2019s been made out to be,\u201d Goldstuck said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe have a little bit of leeway because Anthropic themselves have realised how powerful this tool is, so they are not making it publicly available.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\nToo early for panic<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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