WASHINGTON — Amidst anxiety about Anthropic’s as yet unreleased Mythos model, whose much-hyped hacking ability has raised fears of a looming “bugmageddon,” two top Pentagon tech leaders said this morning they were optimistic that Mythos — and future models like it — could help cyber defenders even more.
“I hear a lot of people talking about challenges and threats when they talk about Mythos,” said Katherine Sutton, Assistant Secretary for Cyber Policy, told the SCSP AI+Expo this morning. “[But] there’s huge opportunity in these models. One of the foundational things that they’re going to enable is the development of secure code.”
As AI hacking tools proliferate, the current approach to cyber defense, which can only patch vulnerabilities “at…
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