Anthropic Teams Up With Its Rivals to Keep AI From Hacking Everything | WIRED

Save StorySave this storySave StorySave this storyFollowing leaked revelations at the end of March that Anthropic had developed a powerful new Claude model, the company formally announced Mythos Preview on Tuesday along with news of an industry consortium it has convened, known as Project Glasswing, to grapple with the cybersecurity implications of the new model and advancing capabilities more generally across the AI field.The group includes Microsoft, Apple, and Google as well as Amazon Web Services, the Linux Foundation, Cisco, Nvidia, Broadcom, and more than 40 other tech, cybersecurity, critical infrastructure, and financial organizations that will have private access to the model, which is not yet being generally released. The idea, in part, is simply to give the developers of the world's foundational tech platforms time to turn Mythos Preview on their own systems so they can mitigate vulnerabilities and exploit chains that the model develops in simulated attacks. More broadly, Anthropic emphasizes that the purpose of convening the effort is to kickstart urgent exploration of how AI capabilities across the industry are on the precipice, the company says, of upending current software security and digital defense practices around the world.“The real message is that this is not about the model or Anthropic,” Logan Graham, the company's frontier red team lead, tells WIRED. “We need to prepare now for a world where these capabilities are broadly available in 6, 12, 24 mont...