Anthropic's Mythos release shows the world needs to regulate AI

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Anthropic's release of its Claude Mythos Preview tool earlier this month shows that the development of artificial intelligence has reached a critical point - one that illustrates that those who highlighted the potential dangers of AI weren't crying wolf.

Mythos, Anthropic has said, is able to identify and exploit flaws in every operating system and web browser at a scale and speed beyond almost all human capabilities. It is capable, autonomously, of executing attacks on systems that would bring down critical national infrastructure like power, water, health or banking systems.

So dangerous does its creator consider the model that it hasn't yet released it generally, instead offering access (it calls it Project Glasswing) to about 40 organisations, including competitors, to enable them to test it on their systems and expose and patch flaws before anyone with malicious intention can discover and exploit them.

Last Friday, Anthropic's chief executive Dario Amodei met with the Trump administration, which is seeking access to the model.