It's been difficult as a layman in cybersecurity to figure out how seriously we should take all the hype and fear over Anthropic's Claude Mythos AI. But now I have something a little more concrete to grasp onto, as Cloudflare has been busy figuring out exactly what Mythos seems good for.
The AI model recently swept through the cybersecurity industry and caused a stir by showing the magnitude of AI's potential threat to software security—for instance, finding thousands of vulnerabilities in every OS and major web browser. But as a mere plebian sitting far from the techbro classes, and despite banks and other institutions rushing to reckon with it, I'd not been sure exactly how much stock to put behind the stink the AI model was causing. Checking over Cloudflare's analysis earlier today, however, has given me a little bit of a better idea.
