As artificial intelligence models grow increasingly adept at coding, concerns have grown hackers will put them to work for cyber crime – Copyright AFP Joel Saget <\/p>\n
Thomas URBAIN<\/p>\n
Anthropic on Tuesday said its yet-to-be-released artificial intelligence model called Claude Mythos has proven keenly adept at exposing software weaknesses.<\/p>\n
Mythos has laid bare thousands of vulnerabilities in commonly used applications for which no patch or fix exists, prompting the San Francisco-based AI startup to form an alliance with cybersecurity specialists to bolster defenses against hacking.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have a new model that we\u2019re explicitly not releasing to the public,\u201d Mike Krieger of Anthropic Labs said at a HumanX AI conference in San Francisco.<\/p>\n
Instead, Anthropic is letting cybersecurity specialists and engineers in the open-source community work with Mythos to use the model as a defensive weapon \u201csort of arming them ahead of time,\u201d Krieger explained.<\/p>\n
Leaps in AI model capabilities have come with concerns about hackers using such tools for figuring out passwords or cracking encryption meant to keep data safe.<\/p>\n
The oldest of the vulnerabilities uncovered by Mythos dates back 27 years, and none were ostensibly noticed by their makers before being pinpointed by the AI model, according to Anthropic.<\/p>\n
Mythos is the latest generation of Anthropic\u2019s Claude family of AI, and a recent leak of some of its code prompted the startup to release a blog post warning it posed unprecedented cybersecurity risks.<\/p>\n
\u201cAI models have reached a level of coding capability where they can surpass all but the most skilled humans at finding and exploiting software vulnerabilities,\u201d Anthropic said in a blog post.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe fallout \u2014 for economies, public safety, and national security \u2014 could be severe.\u201d<\/p>\n
Software vulnerabilities exposed by Mythos were often subtle and difficult to detect without AI, according to Anthropic.<\/p>\n
As an example, it said Mythos found a previously unnoticed flaw in video software that had been tested more than 5 million times by its creators.<\/p>\n
\u2013 Project Glasswing \u2013<\/p>\n
As a precaution, Anthropic has shared\u00a0a version of Mythos with cybersecurity companies CrowdStrike and Palo Alto Networks, as well as with Amazon, Apple and Microsoft in a project it dubbed \u201cGlasswing.\u201d<\/p>\n
Networking giants Cisco and Broadcom are taking part in the project, along with the Linux Foundation that promotes the free, open-source Linux computer operating system.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis work is too important and too urgent to do alone,\u201d Cisco chief security and trust officer Anthony Grieco said in a joint release about Glasswing.<\/p>\n
\u201cAI capabilities have crossed a threshold that fundamentally changes the urgency required to protect critical infrastructure from cyber threats, and there is no going back.\u201d<\/p>\n
Approximately 40 organizations involved in the design, maintenance or operation of computer systems are said to have joined Glasswing.<\/p>\n
Project partners are to share their Mythos findings, according to Anthropic, which is providing about $100 million worth of computing resources for the mission.<\/p>\n
Early work with AI models has shown they can help find and fix software and hardware vulnerabilities at a pace and scale not previously possible, according to Grieco.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe window between a vulnerability being discovered and being exploited by an adversary has collapsed \u2014 what once took months now happens in minutes with AI,\u201d said Crowdstrik chief technology officer Elia Zaitsev.<\/p>\n
\u201cClaude Mythos Preview demonstrates what is now possible for defenders at scale, and adversaries will inevitably look to exploit the same capabilities.\u201d<\/p>\n
Anthropic said it has had discussions with the US government regarding Mythos despite a decree by the White House in February to terminate all contracts with the startup.<\/p>\n
That directive was put on hold by a federal court judge while a legal challenge by Anthropic works its way through the courts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As artificial intelligence models grow increasingly adept at coding, concerns have grown hackers will put them to work…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":88,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[24,53,25,154,155,134,156],"class_list":{"0":"post-87","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ai","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-anthropic","10":"tag-artificial-intelligence","11":"tag-cybercrime","12":"tag-featured","13":"tag-technology","14":"tag-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}