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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Technology
Anthony Cuthbertson

What an AI ‘cyber nuclear war’ would actually look like

OpenAI says its latest military contract will be used to bolster cyber security measures - (Getty/iStock)

When Anthropic unveiled its AI model Mythos in April, the US startup described it as a “reckoning” for cyber security.

The “superhuman” artificial intelligence tool had uncovered vulnerabilities – and in some cases crafted ways of exploiting them – in every major operating system and browser, some of which were so sophisticated that they had gone undetected for decades.

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