Anthropic announced this week it has begun limited testing of its newest AI model called Mythos,

one the company says is so powerful it could cause widespread disruption if released to the public.

It's just generally better at pursuing really long-range tasks that are kind of like the tasks that a human security researcher would do throughout the course of an entire day.

Obviously, capabilities in a model like this could do harm if in the wrong hands.

And so we won't be releasing this model widely.

For now, Anthropic is giving more than 40 tech companies, including some rivals access to mythos, to test it and

identify vulnerabilities across systems. But even that move is raising concerns. For a closer look at all

of this and the implications, we're joined now by Garrett Van derrick, who covers AI for the Washington

Post. Thanks for being with us. Of course. So help us understand the concern here. What specifically makes this model different

from other AI models? And why is there so much, frankly, fear around it? The specific concerns

that are being called out here is that this model is really good at finding, you know,

gaps in software that hackers could exploit. So right now, you know, all software has bugs, but software is pretty complicated,

and you need to kind of really know what you're doing in order to sift through all that code

to find something that you could then use to hack into a system.

And what Anthropic is saying, and some of the independent cybersecurity experts

that they've also given access to this model to are saying,

is that this can essentially do that automatically.

It can sift through all sorts of code, something that might take humans who are very good at this,

months to do.

It can do in minutes or hours.

And so the concern here is that if this is sort of out in the public, anyone can use it,

that anyone who wants to hack into any kind of software for whatever reason would be able to do it

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