Security experts head to D.C. to debate standards for securing AI systems as Mythos raises the stakes

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Welcome to Eye on AI, with AI reporter Sharon Goldman. In this edition: Top Republican pushes party to shun $300 million AI lobby…AI model scams are scary good….Anthropic’s new AI model sets off global alarms.

As Anthropic Mythos drove a fresh wave of headlines this week—highlighting both its advanced capabilities and how easily such systems could be misused—I made my way to a conference room just outside Washington, D.C. There, a cross-sector group of AI security practitioners, standards-setters, and policy experts had gathered to figure out what securing AI should actually look like.