OXFORD, England ¨C It has long been clear that slow-moving governments are not keeping pace with rapid AI progress. But Anthropic¡¯s announcement that its new Claude Mythos Preview model could identify and exploit vulnerabilities in every major operating system and web browser has underscored the perils of failing to regulate this technological revolution.
Even enthusiastic deregulator U.S. President Donald Trump conceded that there should be a ¡°kill switch¡± when news about Mythos broke. But such a simple solution no longer exists ¡ª if it ever did.
The threat is twofold: malicious humans and AI models run amok. The latest AI agents have already turbo-charged cyberattacks and bioengineering risks, accelerating the development of new weapons, including potentially catastrophic ¡°mirror organisms.¡± Now, with the arrival of Mythos (as well as other highly capable models that have since been made available to vetted partners), a consortium of authorized users ¡ª including some U.S. government agencies and a handful of trusted companies ¡ª is scrambling to secure critical software.
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