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.
So far any technical blog that Antrophic made regarding their new capabilities was a marketing lie (e.g. agents clean room implementing c compiler without human intervention - turns out the only true part of that was that the agents did burn tokens, but it was neither clean room, nor without human intervention, it didn’t compile and it needed to use the actual compiler to copy paste working code [sic!]). I am not convinced the Mythos one is different.