ECB to Scrutinize Anthropic's Mythos on Call With Executives
The European Central Bank is convening a call with the chief risk officers of eurozone lenders to discuss the potential threats from Anthropic's new artificial intelligence model, as officials look to understand the technology's potential to exploit vulnerabilities in financial systems.
The ECB will host a call with banks later this week to canvass them on their assessment of the risks from the Mythos model, according to people familiar with the matter. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent last week called Wall Street bosses to a meeting on the potential threats from the as-yet-unreleased product, which could herald a new era of cyber attacks.
Anthropic's Mythos to Be Available to UK Banks Within 'Next Week'
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Authorities in the US have been given access to Mythos so they can interrogate its capabilities, as have some companies including banks such as Goldman Sachs Group Inc., which said it is "working closely" with Anthropic and "supplementing" its existing cyber defences to deal with potential threats.
Anthropic is planning to release its closely watched Mythos artificial intelligence model to some UK financial institutions in the coming week, Pip White, Anthropic's head for the UK, Ireland and northern Europe, said in an interview Thursday on Bloomberg Television.
European banks and officials are awaiting similar access, though several told Bloomberg they were hopeful of gaining insights into Mythos' capabilities informally from discussions at this week's meetings of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund. One person said the call could be an opportunity to share such intelligence.
The ECB declined to comment.
In an interview with Bloomberg Television on Tuesday, ECB president Christine Lagarde this week praised Anthropic for restricting the release of Mythos until safeguards can be considered.
"The development we've seen with Anthropic and Mythos is a good example of a responsible company that is suddenly thinking, ah, that could be really good -- but if it falls in the wrong hands, it could be really bad," she said.