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.

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    4 hours ago

    “The difference is that the Strait of Hormuz - we know where it is and we know how large it is… the issue that we’re facing with Anthropic is that it’s the unknown, unknown.

    Someone get Donald Rumsfield his royalty check…

    I can’t believe people are still using that shit.

    Anyways,

    AI companies are saying it’s a huge danger but are ever so graciously willing to sell it to existing corps to fix the vulnerabilies it can supposedly circumvent…

    Before it circumvents them…

    Even tho the AI companies are also saying it will be able to circumvent anything regardless.

    And even if they tell people it can make something it cant also break (impossible) in 6 months they’ll repeat the process

    A never ending cycle where they sell the shiny new model and corps pay for it because eventually hackers will have it too when it’s publicly released

    And endless cat and mouse game where AI constantly accumulates more and more wealth.