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Anthropic’s Mythos Has Changed Cybersecurity Forever. What Now?

Anthropic’s Mythos Has Changed Cybersecurity Forever. What Now?

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The critical infrastructure of our world is digital. So what happens when an AI company creates a skeleton key for the internet? In this episode, we speak with cybersecurity experts to explore the significance and stakes of Anthropic’s Claude Mythos — and

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A generation ago, the world's critical infrastructure was
physical. Today, it’s largely digital. Your bank vault is a
database, your filing cabinet is a server, your car is a robot on
wheels. And in a world where these systems are mostly secure,
life is more convenient and efficient. But all that comes into
question when an AI system can break through the security that
runs the world.

That’s what’s happened with Claude Mythos, Anthropic’s most
powerful AI model yet. In a very short time, Claude found
thousands of flaws and vulnerabilities in the software that runs
the world, in every major operating system and web browser —
systems that human security researchers had thought were secure
for years.

How do we live in a world where a private company suddenly has a
skeleton key that can unlock the entire digital world with little
oversight or accountability? And what does Mythos mean for all of
us who rely on digital security to go about our lives?

In this episode, we speak with two cybersecurity experts to
answer these questions:

Josephine Wolff is a professor of cybersecurity policy at Tufts
University, where she focuses on the economic impact of
cyberattacks.

Fred Heiding is a research fellow at the Defense, Emerging
Technology, and Strategy Program at Harvard's Kennedy School of
Government.

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