\u201cAs I hear a lot of people talking about challenges and threats when they talk about Mythos, I actually come at it from a very different perspective,\u201d Katie Sutton, assistant secretary of defense for cyber policy, said at the AI+ Expo. \u201cAs an engineer and as somebody who works to develop tools and has over my career in this space, the first word that I see when I think of Mythos is actually \u2018success,\u2019 and it talks to one of the biggest initiatives that I\u2019m going to be leading in the department is how do we leverage what is our number one competitive strength in the United States? And that\u2019s our industry, and the fact that U.S. industry was able to rapidly innovate and develop such a powerful capability, not just with this model, but with its predecessors, and what\u2019s going to be coming on afterwards from many of the other frontier models that we see. That\u2019s really a huge success story, and there\u2019s huge opportunity.\u201d<\/p>\n
She noted that frontier AI technology can be used to help develop more secure code.<\/p>\n
\u201cOne of the challenges of cybersecurity is we\u2019re largely patching vulnerabilities, which is getting after the fact that there are problems in the code. So having tools that are going to help us build that more robust code is a huge opportunity. There\u2019s also huge opportunity to take these tools and be able to learn where our vulnerabilities are so that we can mitigate them and patch them,\u201d Sutton said.<\/p>\n
However, the U.S. will need to move to a less labor-intensive approach to fixing vulnerabilities, she noted.<\/p>\n
Taking days or weeks to patch problems isn\u2019t going to cut it, she suggested.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s no longer going to be acceptable when we start thinking about needing to move to machine speed. We\u2019re going to be talking about minutes to seconds. And there\u2019s a lot of opportunity. I think industry is going to bring a lot to the table \u2026 to develop really robust and creative solutions to this,\u201d Sutton said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe challenge from the Department of War is how do we implement that where we have a lot of tech debt and a lot of legacy systems? And that\u2019s where we\u2019re just gonna have to speed up how we get after some of those upgrades,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n
Pentagon CTO Emil Michael, speaking at the same conference, said Mythos is just an example of the upcoming evolution of \u201ccyber-capable\u201d AI models.<\/p>\n
\u201cI do think these models all tend to converge over time. When one [company] finds out that, hey, coding is a great business opportunity, the other ones start developing coding opportunities. When one figures out that cyber is another sort of vector of improvement, they\u2019ll tend to do that,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Mythos moment is really a cyber moment, and it\u2019s how is the U.S. government going to deal with cyber, how do we operationalize fixing things that need to be fixed? Because these models are coming one way or the other, and thankfully, the U.S. companies [are the ones] that are ahead, not the Chinese ones. But even if they weren\u2019t, we\u2019d be thinking about this coming from the adversary. How do we deal with this? And it will still be the same White House-driven approach of what do we do as a nation about these things?\u201d Michael said.<\/p>\n
The Pentagon earlier this year designated Anthropic a supply chain risk amid a dispute<\/a> about restrictions on the department\u2019s use of the company\u2019s Claude products. Anthropic has taken the government to court<\/a> over the ban.<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t \n\t\t\tWritten by Jon Harper![\"Jon](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1778189532_449_Profile-pic.jpeg\")
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