Why Anthropic’s new model has cybersecurity experts rattled
AI Summary
Anthropic announced Claude Mythos Preview, a new AI model that poses significant cybersecurity risks by finding thousands of vulnerabilities in major operating systems. The company launched Project Glasswing with 40+ tech companies to use the model defensively before similar capabilities proliferate to bad actors.
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AI regulation
Project Glasswing is built on the uncomfortable premise that the only way to protect us from dangerous AI is to build it first
AI centralization
This situation centralizes power and risk, with a private company now having powerful zero-day exploits
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