The US Treasury secretary, Scott Bessent, summoned major American bank chiefs to a meeting in Washington this week amid concerns over the cyber risks posed by Anthropic\u2019s latest AI model, according to reports.<\/p>\n
Bosses including the Federal Reserve chair, Jerome Powell, were said to have gathered at the Treasury headquarters for the meeting after the release of the Claude Mythos AI model that Anthropic says poses unprecedented cybersecurity risks<\/a>.<\/p>\n A recent leak of Claude\u2019s code prompted the startup to release a blogpost<\/a> at the beginning of the month saying that AI models had surpassed \u201call but the most skilled humans at finding and exploiting software vulnerabilities\u201d, adding: \u201cThe fallout \u2013 for economies, public safety, and national security \u2013 could be severe.\u201d<\/p>\n This week\u2019s meeting was reportedly called while bank bosses were already in Washington for a lobby group meeting, with a guest list focused on heads of systemically important banks \u2013 meaning regulators believe a major disruption to their operations, or their potential collapse, would put financial stability at risk.<\/p>\n Attenders included the Goldman Sachs chief executive, David Solomon, Bank of America\u2019s Brian Moynihan, Citigroup\u2019s Jane Fraser, Morgan Stanley\u2019s Ted Pick and the Wells Fargo boss Charlie Scharf, according to Bloomberg<\/a>, which first reported details of the meeting. JP Morgan\u2019s Jamie Dimon was invited but unable to attend.<\/p>\n In an annual letter to shareholders, published earlier this week, Dimon warned that<\/a> cybersecurity \u201cremains one of our biggest risks\u201d and that \u201cAI will almost surely make this risk worse\u201d.<\/p>\n Anthropic has said that its Mythos model, yet to be shared with the public, has exposed thousands of vulnerabilities in software and popular applications, prompting it to limit the release<\/a> of the new model to a small clutch of businesses, including Amazon, Apple and Microsoft.<\/p>\n It marks the first time Anthropic has restricted the release of any of its products. The networking companies Cisco and Broadcom have also gained access, along with the Linux Foundation, which promotes the free, open-source Linux computer operating system.<\/p>\n It comes amid concerns that hackers could end up using such tools for figuring out passwords or cracking encryption that is intended to keep data safe.<\/p>\n The company said the oldest of the vulnerabilities uncovered by Mythos were up to 27 years old, none of which are believed to have been noticed by their creators or tech monitors before being identified by the AI mode.<\/p>\n The meeting comes weeks after the US government designated Anthropic as a supply chain risk<\/a>, allegations that Anthropic is fighting in court.<\/p>\n