Anthropic’s new Mythos AI software is an important improvement in cybersecurity that would take experts weeks to develop.
Security researchers who simulate hacking attacks to identify security weaknesses showed that the model could chain together multiple vulnerabilities to create complex attacks capable of sidestepping defences.
Whether AI developers can keep a lid on these capabilities long enough for the rest of the world to come to grips with this new reality remains to be seen.
But either way, cybersecurity will become an even bigger issue and is likely to be high up on the list of priorities in most boardrooms looking forward.
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