{"id":5302,"date":"2026-04-14T22:05:30","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T22:05:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/5302\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T22:05:30","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T22:05:30","slug":"canadas-ai-minister-says-anthropic-withholding-mythos-is-responsible-national","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/5302\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada\u2019s AI minister says Anthropic withholding Mythos is \u2018responsible\u2019 &#8211; National"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\tDescrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tIncrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>Artificial Intelligence Minister <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/evan-solomon\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Evan Solomon<\/a> met on Tuesday with representatives of <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/anthropic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Anthropic<\/a> \u2014 the company <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11769446\/anthropic-ai-model-too-powerful\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">that said its latest chatbot, Mythos, is too risky for public release last week.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/70c8fc80.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Anthropic released a system preview card surrounding its newest AI model, <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/claude-mythos\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Claude Mythos<\/a>, which the company stated was \u201csubstantially beyond those of any model we have previously trained\u201d and therefore would not be released to the public, citing cybersecurity dangers.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/national.jpg\" alt=\"Get daily Canada news delivered to your inbox so you'll never miss the day's top stories.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGet daily National news<\/p>\n<p>Get daily Canada news delivered to your inbox so you&#8217;ll never miss the day&#8217;s top stories.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnthropic and the Canadian government are engaged in constructive, ongoing discussions,\u201d Solomon said in an emailed statement from his office to Global News.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI met with Anthropic this morning as part of our continued engagement with leading AI companies on safety, security, and Canada\u2019s sovereign interests. The Government of Canada takes the protection of its systems, its critical infrastructure, and Canadians\u2019 data with the utmost seriousness.<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Solomon stated that \u201cAnthropic\u2019s approach of working with defenders first, rather than releasing this new model broadly, is the responsible path and gives people protecting critical systems a head start.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\tMore on Canada<br \/>\n\t\t\tMore videos\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Concerns about rapid AI development and ransomware have grown significantly amongst Canadians.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11641754\/ransomware-ai-growth-canada\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">January 2026 federal report by the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security<\/a> stated that numerous Canadian organizations and businesses, \u201cregardless of size or sector,\u201d as well as individuals, are susceptible to ransomware attacks.<\/p>\n<p>However, \u201ccritical infrastructure and large corporations\u201d were found to be the top targets for ransomware activities.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t&amp;copy 2026 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc.\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Descrease article font size Increase article font size Artificial Intelligence Minister Evan Solomon met on Tuesday with representatives&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5303,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1660,2573,17,2572,1276,3150,113],"class_list":{"0":"post-5302","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-canada","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-anthropic","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-claude-mythos","12":"tag-consumer","13":"tag-evan-solomon","14":"tag-politics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5302\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}