Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent met with top bank CEOs in a closed-door meeting this week to discuss the cybersecurity risks posed by Anthropic’s latest AI model, Mythos, sources told CBS News.\u00a0<\/p>\n
JPMorgan Chase chief executive Jamie Dimon was invited but was unable to attend, according to the sources. The meeting was earlier reported<\/a> by Bloomberg News, which said Powell and Bessent summoned the financial executives to the Treasury Department’s Washington, D.C., headquarters to discuss the potential risks from Mythos and other AI models.\u00a0<\/p>\n Anthropic, the developer of generative AI chatbot Claude, on Tuesday\u00a0said<\/a>\u00a0it was forming a project with several major tech companies, including Amazon, Apple and Nvidia, to use Mythos to strengthen cybersecurity defenses.\u00a0<\/p>\n Anthropic added that it will not widely release Mythos because of its advanced capabilities, which have uncovered vulnerabilities in major operating systems and web browsers.<\/p>\n “Given the rate of AI progress, it will not be long before such capabilities proliferate, potentially beyond actors who are committed to deploying them safely,” Anthropic said in a\u00a0post<\/a> about the new project. “The fallout\u2014for economies, public safety, and national security\u2014could be severe.”<\/p>\n The effort, called Project Glasswing, “is an urgent attempt to put these capabilities to work for defensive purposes,” Anthropic said on Tuesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n In 2023, the Biden Administration identified AI as a potential risk to financial stability. It was the first time that designation had been made,\u00a0CBS News reported<\/a>\u00a0at the time.\u00a0<\/p>\n