Anthropic’s new AI tool has implications for us all – whether we can use it or not | Shakeel Hashim
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Anthropic's new AI tool, Claude Mythos, has "superhuman hacking abilities" raising alarms about widespread digital chaos.
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This AI tool could lead to more sophisticated and lethal cyber-attacks, potentially disrupting essential digital systems and services you rely on.
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Anthropic's new AI tool, Claude Mythos, is raising alarms among experts due to its "superhuman hacking abilities." This development could lead to widespread chaos and disruption in digital systems, similar to a 2024 cyber-attack on a pathology company that caused hospital disruptions and a patient death in London. Shakeel Hashim, editor of Transformer, highlights the potential for a new era of lethal cyber-attacks. The Trump administration is described as "blinded by hostility," hindering its ability to address these emerging threats.
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<p>Anthropic is rolling out a preview of its new Mythos model only to a handpicked group of tech and cybersecurity companies over concerns about its <a href="https://www.axios.com/2026/03/29/claude-mythos-anthropic-cyberattack-ai-agents" target="_blank">ability to find and exploit security flaws</a>, the company said Tuesday.</p><p><strong>Why it matters:</strong> Anthropic is so worried about the damage its own model could cause that it's refusing to release it publicly until there are safeguards to control its most dangerous capabilities. </p><hr><p><strong>Threat level: </strong> Mythos Preview is "extremely autonomous" and has sophisticated reasoning capabilities that give it the skills of an advanced security researcher, Logan Graham, head of Anthropic's frontier red team, told Axios.</p><ul><li>Mythos Preview can find "tens of thousands of vulnerabilities" that even the most advanced bug hunter would struggle to find. Unlike past models, it can also write the exploits to go wi...
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Anthropic says its newest AI model, Claude Mythos, is too powerful and dangerous to be released to the public. Tech journalist Jacob Ward joins CBS News to discuss.
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Anthropic announced that it has started a very limited test of its newest AI model called Mythos. It's a model deemed so powerful that the company warned it could cause widespread disruption if it were released to the public. Anthropic is giving some companies access to Mythos to test and identify vulnerabilities, a move that is raising concerns. Geoff Bennett discussed more with Gerrit De Vynck.
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