Days after Anthropic announced its latest model- ‘’Mythos Preview’- their most powerful AI model capable of posing unprecedented cybersecurity risks, top U.S. officials ’held an urgent meet with major bank leaders in Washington to discuss the upcoming digital security challenges.
According to a report published in Bloomberg, U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell met with Wall Street executives on Tuesday in Washington to discuss the risks linked to Anthropic’s latest AI model, called Mythos.
The representatives included David Solomon, chief executive of Goldman Sachs, Brian Moynihan of Bank of America, Jane Fraser from Citigroup, Ted Pick from Morgan Stanley and Charlie Scharf from Wells Fargo.
According to Bloomberg, officials wanted to make sure banks understand the possible cyber security risks posed by advanced AI tools and are taking pro-active steps to protect their systems from future attacks.
Anthropic released a statement on Wednesday claiming ‘Claude Mythos Preview’ their most advanced large language model (LLMs) has reached a level of coding capability surpassing most skilled humans, finding thousands of high severity vulnerabilities in “every major operating system and web browser.”
The AI company has claimed that they will not release the Mythos model to the public owing to its unprecedented capabilities to exploit systems, thereby posing grave cybersecurity challenges to digital infrastructure impacting banks, healthcare, logistics, public transport among others.
“The fallout—-for economies, public safety, and national security—-could be severe,” added Anthropic in a statement.
Because of its powerful abilities, Anthropic has limited access to Mythos to only a small group of companies. These include major tech and finance firms such as Amazon, Apple, Google, Microsoft and JPMorgan.
Anthropic has also said it has been in talks with U.S. government officials about the model’s cyber capabilities.
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