this post was submitted on 17 Apr 2026
54 points (95.0% liked)

World News

55578 readers
1136 users here now

A community for discussing events around the World

Rules:

Similarly, if you see posts along these lines, do not engage. Report them, block them, and live a happier life than they do. We see too many slapfights that boil down to "Mom! He's bugging me!" and "I'm not touching you!" Going forward, slapfights will result in removed comments and temp bans to cool off.

We ask that the users report any comment or post that violate the rules, to use critical thinking when reading, posting or commenting. Users that post off-topic spam, advocate violence, have multiple comments or posts removed, weaponize reports or violate the code of conduct will be banned.

All posts and comments will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. This means that some content that violates the rules may be allowed, while other content that does not violate the rules may be removed. The moderators retain the right to remove any content and ban users.


Lemmy World Partners

News !news@lemmy.world

Politics !politics@lemmy.world

World Politics !globalpolitics@lemmy.world


Recommendations

For Firefox users, there is media bias / propaganda / fact check plugin.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/media-bias-fact-check/

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 

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.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] benjirenji@slrpnk.net 36 points 2 days ago (6 children)

I'm not sure I get the concern. If there are vulnerabilities they have probably been sold to NSA, other state hackers and black hats already. Mythos would help close them for everyone.

Sure, a bad actor could use it to break in, but Mythos is not some secret hacking tool, it's an expensive LLM you can run against your own code and system giving you the upper hand.

Anthropic is actually acting responsibly by contacting maintainers and platforms with bugs and the possibility to analyze their systems before it's released to the wider public. And if it's all hype then this is a money grabbing operation to finally make good money off of LLMs. That concern however doesn't seem to be shared by the financiers.

[–] vzqq@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I’m worried about the tons of barely maintained software run by your average company. Most commercial software is made by relatively small outfits and is drowning technical debt. The only thing saving their customers is the effort of picking through it.

But now any loser with a decompiler and a $100 Claude sub can ruin a whole lot of people’s day.

Things will get better, but the near term is pretty fucked.

[–] magnue@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago

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.

[–] CombatWombat@feddit.online 6 points 1 day ago

The thing to be concerned about is that LLM vendors have figured out a way to write a system card that leads to regulatory capture in under a week. That's the only innovation -- Mythos doesn't actually find software vulnerabilities considerably better than other LLMs.

[–] disorderly@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I don't have it handy, but I recommend reading Anthropic's report about mythos and security. They state that in the long run, models which can iteratively build an attack against a perceived vulnerability will be a major win for defenders, but in the short term, they present an advantage to attackers since they basically expose oodles of new zero days.

[–] ThirdConsul@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

So far any technical blog that Antrophic made regarding their new capabilities was a marketing lie (e.g. agents clean room implementing c compiler without human intervention - turns out the only true part of that was that the agents did burn tokens, but it was neither clean room, nor without human intervention, it didn't compile and it needed to use the actual compiler to copy paste working code [sic!]). I am not convinced the Mythos one is different.

[–] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 3 points 2 days ago

Maybe the concern is less scrupulous actors will soon be able to develop similar models?

[–] theherk@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Yep; same as it ever was. The arms race continues. At least until Butlerian Jihad arrives.