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.
I bought a game server once that was hosted on a VPS and I didn’t bother doing much security setup for the first 12 hours (fail2ban etc). I was SSH-ing into it so the address was kind of ‘open’, but not listed anywhere.
Got over 300 failed SSH attempts in 12 hrs before I set up fail2ban and set up keys. Just massive botnets scouring addresses. (The game server never took off so it’s actually now being used as a honeypot named like a payment node so I can report a bunch).
The worry is more the automation. Someone could cast an extremely wide net and find vulnerabilities that people didn’t even know could be vulnerabilities. If you could run 1000 agents each one with the ability of a network/SE expert, you can steal a lot of things very quickly.