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Intelligence agencies warn AI models could launch crippling cyberattacks in months
Key takeaways
- The Five Eyes group, including the U.S., U.K., Canada, Australia and New Zealand, said in a joint statement that AI s impacts on defensive and offensive cyber threats is not happening in years, but months.
- While Al will help us improve cyber defence over time, it also accelerates the speed, scale, and sophistication of cyber threats, the countries wrote, adding AI is not a future consideration — it is already here.
- Anthropic held back the full release of the Mythos model earlier this year, saying it was too dangerous for public use.
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The Five Eyes group, including the U.S., U.K., Canada, Australia and New Zealand, said in a joint statement that AI s impacts on defensive and offensive cyber threats is not happening in years, but months.
While Al will help us improve cyber defence over time, it also accelerates the speed, scale, and sophistication of cyber threats, the countries wrote, adding AI is not a future consideration — it is already here.
AI firms have long warned of how the technology could empower bad actors to hack faster, cheaper and at a broader scale, but concerns ramped up this year amid these firms new cybersecurity models like Anthropic s Mythos model.
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