{"id":45572,"date":"2026-04-09T09:00:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T09:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=45572"},"modified":"2026-04-09T09:00:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T09:00:21","slug":"anthropics-claude-mythos-model-sparks-fears-of-ai-doomsday-wave-of-devastating-hacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=45572","title":{"rendered":"Anthropic&#8217;s &#8216;Claude Mythos&#8217; model sparks fears of AI doomsday, wave of devastating hacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Anthropic has triggered alarm bells by touting the terrifying capabilities of \u201cClaude Mythos\u201d \u2013 with executives warning that the new AI model is so dangerous it would cause a wave of catastrophic hacks and terror attacks if released to the wider public.<\/p>\n<p>In a nightmarish analysis, Anthropic itself revealed that Mythos \u2013 if it fell into the wrong hands \u2013 could easily exploit critical infrastructure like electric grids, power plants and hospitals. The model has already \u201cfound thousands of high-severity vulnerabilities, including some in every major operating system and web browser,\u201d according to the AI company.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Critics have accused Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei of using safety fears to promote the company\u2019s products. <span class=\"credit\">Bloomberg via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Rather than a wide release, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/04\/06\/business\/anthropic-backers-fret-over-ai-giants-volatile-ceo-dario-amodei-as-billions-hang-in-the-balance\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Anthropic, led by CEO Dario Amodei,<\/a> has unveiled \u201cProject Glasswing,\u201d a plan to provide the model to a handpicked group of about 40 companies, including Amazon, Google, Apple, Nvidia, CrowdStrike, and JPMorgan Chase, which will receive early access to Mythos so they can use it to find and fix security flaws.<\/p>\n<p>The corporate-only rollout is likely Anthropic\u2019s best possible way to \u201cgive it to the guys to patch the holes, but not to the hackers that are going to find more holes,\u201d Roman Yampolskiy, an AI safety researcher at the University of Louisville, told The Post.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMost likely, of course, there\u2019s going to be a leakage of some kind,\u201d he said. \u201cAny level of restriction is preferred over complete open access. Ideally, I would love to see this not developed in the first place. And it\u2019s not like they\u2019re going to stop.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s exactly what we expect from those models \u2013 they\u2019re going to become better at developing hacking tools, biological weapons, chemical weapons, novel weapons we can\u2019t even envision,\u201d Yampolskiy added.<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/www-cdn.anthropic.com\/8b8380204f74670be75e81c820ca8dda846ab289.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">one instance detailed in Anthropic\u2019s testing<\/a>, Mythos broke out of a secure \u201csandbox\u201d meant to restrict internet access \u2013 with a researcher only finding out \u201cby receiving an unexpected email from the model while eating a sandwich in a park.\u201d In another case, Mythos found a flaw in the OpenBSD operating system that had been hidden in plain sight for 27 years.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the risks, Anthropic argues Project Glasswing will help the US\u2019 defensive capabilities as adversaries in Iran, China and Russia become ever more aggressive about targeting critical infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>An Anthropic official said the company \u201cfocused on organizations whose software represents the largest share of the world\u2019s shared cyberattack surface. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese are the companies that build and maintain the operating systems, browsers, cloud platforms, and financial infrastructure that billions of people rely on every day,\u201d the official said. \u201cWhen you find a vulnerability in one of their systems and it gets patched, that patch protects everyone who uses that software \u2014 in many cases, hundreds of millions of people.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>About 40 companies are participating in Project Glasswing. <span class=\"credit\">NurPhoto via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Anthropic said it is in active discussions with US government officials about how Mythos can aid the country\u2019s cyber capabilities \u2014 both offensive and defensive. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cClaude Mythos Preview demonstrates what is now possible for defenders at scale, and adversaries will inevitably look to exploit the same capabilities,\u201d said Elia Zaitsev, chief technology officer at CrowdStrike.<\/p>\n<p>While Mythos appears to be a major leap forward technologically, critics are uncertain about whether Anthropic\u2019s actions \u2013 including the splashy public announcement \u2013 match its rhetoric about the risks.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>CEO of Anthropic Dario Amodei, addresses the gathering at the AI Impact Summit, in New Delhi, India, February 19, 2026. <span class=\"credit\">REUTERS<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Perry Metzger, chairman of Alliance for the Future, a Washington, DC-based AI policy group, noted that the hype about Mythos as a product has \u201cspread like wildfire\u201d as a result of the company\u2019s warning.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019d better carefully pay for access to Glasswing or get in on it, because only they are responsible enough to decide who should and shouldn\u2019t have access. They\u2019re the experts, after all,\u201d Metzger sarcastically said. \u201cI find the whole thing maddening.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As The Post has reported, Anthropic\u2019s critics, including President Trump\u2019s AI adviser David Sacks and others in the White House, have claimed the company\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/02\/27\/business\/trump-orders-federal-agencies-to-stop-using-anthropics-ai-models-says-leftwing-nut-jobs-made-disastrous-mistake\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">safety warnings are actually an elaborate attempt at \u201cregulatory capture\u201d<\/a> \u2013 Silicon Valley lingo for crafting the rules in such a way that they benefit and their rivals struggle.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt every point in the conversation around the emergence of AI, Dario Amodei believes he, and he alone is qualified to determine what this technology can do, who can access it,\u201d said Nathan Leamer, executive director of the advocacy group Build American AI. \u201cHe alone is the modern Solomon who will decide what entity will regulate it. Who needs the public square?\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Claude Mythos is Anthropic\u2019s latest AI model. <span class=\"credit\">Christopher Sadowski for NY Post<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Anthropic official pushed back on claims that Project Glasswing was an attempt at regulatory capture, noting that participants include \u201cseveral of the largest companies in the world, including those that build their own AI models.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe made our most capable model available to AWS, Apple, Google, Microsoft, and others to find and fix vulnerabilities in their own systems, and prioritized open-source maintainers, donating $4 million to organizations like the Linux Foundation and Apache Software Foundation,\u201d the official said.<\/p>\n<p>Another tech industry insider, who spoke to The Post on condition of anonymity, pointed out that OpenAI similarly warned in 2019 that GPT-2, an early version of its chatbot model, <a href=\"https:\/\/slate.com\/technology\/2019\/02\/openai-gpt2-text-generating-algorithm-ai-dangerous.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">was too dangerous for release.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Amodei and Anthropic\u2019s top policy executive Jack Clark were both working at OpenAI at the time.<\/p>\n<p>The insider speculated that the limited release could have more to do with Anthropic\u2019s struggle to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theinformation.com\/newsletters\/ai-agenda\/anthropics-compute-crunch-strikes\">keep pace with compute demand than safety fears<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey are trying to deflect from the fact that they can\u2019t serve the model because they have no compute,\u201d the person said.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/04\/08\/business\/anthropics-claude-mythos-model-sparks-fears-of-ai-doomsday-wave-of-devastating-hacks\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anthropic has triggered alarm bells by touting the terrifying capabilities of \u201cClaude Mythos\u201d \u2013 with executives warning that the new AI model is so dangerous it&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45573,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45572\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/45573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}