Finance ministers, central bankers and financiers have expressed serious concerns about a powerful new AI model they fear could undermine the security of financial systems.
The development of the Claude Mythos model by Anthropic has led to crisis meetings, after it found vulnerabilities in many major operating systems.
Experts say it potentially has an unprecedented ability to identify and exploit cyber-security weaknesses - though others caution further testing is needed to properly understand its capabilities.
Canadian Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne told the BBC that Mythos had been discussed extensively at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) meeting in Washington DC this week.
“Certainly it is serious enough to warrant the attention of all the finance ministers,” he said.
My comment was not generalized AI snark, it was specific to Claude Mythos.
At least according to Ed Zitron, the reason Mythos is not being released to general public is simply that it’s too fucking expensive to run.
And all of the vulnerabilities it found, were found by other less expensive models already.
This scare tactic PR strategy is pure marketing hype for Anthropic, that’s it.
Again, according to Ed.
Maybe time will show that I was wrong to trust Ed’s reporting more than AI “tech leaders”, but until that time comes, I know who I lean towards believing more.