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Anthropic’s Mythos Has Changed Cybersecurity Forever. What Now?

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🗓️ 14 May 2026

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

The critical infrastructure of our world is digital. So what happens when an AI company creates a skeleton key for the internet? In this episode, we speak with cybersecurity experts to explore the significance and stakes of Anthropic’s Claude Mythos — and what it means for all of us.

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0:00.0

Hey everyone, it's Tristan Harris and welcome to your undivided attention.

0:08.0

Now, a generation ago, your bank had a fault. Your medical records were in a filing cabinet.

0:16.0

Our car was a physical machine and electric grid just ran on dials and switches that someone

0:21.0

physically turned on or off. And today, all of those things are digital. The vault is a database.

0:28.2

Our filing cabinet is a server. Your car, your Tesla, is a robot on wheels. And in a world where

0:33.6

all these systems are mostly secure, life just gets more convenient and efficient because

0:37.5

of all this. But all that comes into question, when suddenly an AI system can break through

0:43.6

the security that runs the world. Now, recently you probably heard, Anthropic announced their most

0:48.7

powerful AI model yet, Claude Mythos. You've probably read the headlines. Claude was

0:54.0

looking for flaws and

0:55.1

vulnerabilities in the software that runs the world, and within just a few weeks and a few hours,

1:00.0

it found thousands of them. It found vulnerabilities in every major operating system and web browser.

1:06.0

These are systems that human security researchers had thought were secure for years.

1:10.0

Now, Mythos was so dangerous that Anthropics shared it with a select group of These are systems that human security researchers had thought were secure for years.

1:15.5

Now, Mythos was so dangerous that Anthropics shared it with a select group of companies responsible for cyber defense so that they could use it to find and patch the vulnerabilities

1:19.6

before anyone else got access.

1:21.9

That plan, though, is already showing cracks.

1:25.0

A couple of weeks after the announcement, Bloomberg reported that a group of

1:27.9

unauthorized users had gotten into Mythos through one of Anthropics vendors, and OpenAI announced

1:33.7

that they now have a model that's nearly as capable, with Chinese open source models just a few

1:37.9

months behind. I actually have been talking to some people who run security at some of the companies

1:43.7

that got access to Mythos,

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