EU regulators largely denied access to Anthropic Mythos

Experts are critical of private companies controlling access to powerful AI vulnerability-hunting technology. Credit: T. Schneider / Shutterstock European regulators have largely been frozen out of early access to Anthropic’s new Mythos model, Politico reports. The AI technology, aimed at cybersecurity use cases, is said to be able to identify and exploit technical vulnerabilities at a level that surpasses most humans — signaling a structural shift for CISOs and the cybersecurity industry. For security reasons, Anthropic has chosen to initially limit access to a few selected players as part of Project Glasswing. These include primarily US technology giants such as Apple, Microsoft, and Amazon, who have been given the opportunity to analyze the model and address potential security flaws. At the same time, European authorities have been largely left out. In the UK, the country’s AI Security Institute has been allowed to test the model and has already acted on its results. Within the EU, only Germany is currently reported to have initiated a dialogue with Anthropic, but without yet gaining access to the technology. As a result, the EU’s influence over the model is limited, not least because it is not yet widely available. Several experts interviewed by Politico believe that this development is problematic, as private companies in practice decide how and when such powerful technology is shared, rather than independent authorities. Germany’s chief cybersecurity official Claudia Plattner underscored to Politico the “pressing” question of whether a tool like Mythos “of such extraordinary power” will be available on the open market. “That question, in turn, has profound implications for national and European security and sovereignty,” Plattner said. Generative AI Artificial Intelligence Security