How Dangerous Is Anthropic’s New AI Model? Its Chief Science Officer Explains.

How Dangerous Is Anthropic’s New AI Model? Its Chief Science Officer Explains.Anthropic says Mythos is so dangerous that the company is slowing its release. We asked Jared Kaplan why.By Sean Fischer04.16.26 — Tech and BusinessNo description available.FOLLOW TOPIC We sat down with Jared Kaplan so he could walk us through just how powerful Mythos is. (Cayce Clifford/Guardian/eyevine/Redux)--:----:--Upgrade to Listen5 minsProduced by ElevenLabs using AI narrationJust how fast is the future coming at us, and how worried should we be?Last week, Anthropic announced Claude Mythos, the latest in what has become the leading family of AI models. In a very short time, AI models from Anthropic and other companies have become shockingly powerful at coding. But Mythos stands out because it is not just able to write code that can hack into critical systems, like those that run financial companies, but also to analyze systems and find and string together vulnerabilities in them, allowing Mythos to evade even sophisticated defenses.Anthropic chose to release Mythos to only about 40 leading corporations, so they could analyze the model’s capabilities and prepare countermeasures, in an effort it calls Project Glasswing. The release of Mythos—and the prospect of similarly powerful AIs to follow—has caused tremors at the top levels of Washington and corporate America.Jared Kaplan, co-founder and chief science officer at Anthropic, is at the center of this breakthrough. We sat down with Kaplan ...