Ben Buchanan, a former AI policy advisor in the Biden White House, also advises Anthropic.

Anthropic launched Project Glasswing to give critical software developers like Apple and Google access to Claude Mythos to secure their systems before similar capabilities proliferate.

The development of Claude Mythos should be a galvanizing moment for all industries to improve their defensive cyber capabilities before offensive AI tools become widespread.

The 2017 NotPetya cyberattack, attributed to Russia, caused over $10 billion in damages, making it likely the most destructive cyberattack in history by monetary value.

Claude Mythos is the best automated system ever created for vulnerability discovery and exploit development.

An AI model like Claude Mythos, or its successor, could potentially manipulate industrial control systems to cause kinetic effects, succeeding where attacks like Crash Override failed.

Claude Mythos discovered vulnerabilities in code used by common operating systems and browsers that had existed for decades and evaded millions of automated tests.

The performance of Claude Mythos in vulnerability discovery is comparable to or better than some of the world's top-tier human cybersecurity experts.

Project Glasswing is a consortium of 12 named members and a broader group of competing companies collaborating to address the systemic threat from advanced AI vulnerability discovery tools.

Anthropic's stated goal for Claude Mythos is to shift the balance of power in cyberspace toward defenders, not to enable offensive operations.

Training an AI model with the capabilities of Claude Mythos requires a very large amount of computing power.

Export controls on computing hardware will constrain which actors can develop AI models with capabilities similar to Claude Mythos, at least for a period of time.

In the post-Mythos era, the entire cybersecurity lifecycle from vulnerability discovery to patch deployment will need to accelerate significantly to counter faster offensive AI capabilities.

AI capabilities like Claude Mythos can now robustly assist at each step of the offensive cyber operations "kill chain," a milestone previously considered only theoretical.

In 2016, Russia attempted a fully automated cyberattack against Ukraine's power grid called Crash Override, which largely failed but demonstrated intent for automated kinetic effects.

The discovery of longstanding bugs by Claude Mythos challenges the open-source software credo that "with enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow," suggesting that capable AI systems are also needed for ...

Claude Mythos conducted a simulated network exploitation that would have taken a human 10 hours to complete.

Claude Mythos is a general-purpose AI model applied to vulnerability discovery and exploit development, not a cyber-specific model.

In the near term, an AI capability like Claude Mythos, if released without restrictions, would clearly benefit offensive cyber operations over defensive ones.

Claude Mythos is a game-changer in how cyber operations are conducted, but it does not change the fundamental principles of cybersecurity.