Mythos and Cybersecurity

Anthropic created Claude Mythos, an AI model so skilled at finding and exploiting software vulnerabilities (weaknesses in code that attackers can abuse) that the company restricted its access to about 50 large organizations instead of releasing it publicly. While this approach seems responsible, critics argue we lack key information to evaluate whether Mythos truly works as well as claimed, including how often it incorrectly flags safe code as vulnerable, and whether it can find bugs in less common software like medical devices or industrial control systems.