Mythos and National Power
Has the A-bomb of cyber just been discovered?
This post originally appeared in ChinaTalk.
Anthropic’s new model found decades-old vulnerabilities in foundational open-source code that millions of automated tests and countless human experts had missed, presaging a potentially revolutionary moment in cyber.
Ben Buchanan, former senior advisor for AI at the White House now at SAIS, and Michael Sulmeyer, former Assistant Secretary of Defense for Cyber Policy now at Georgetown, join the show to break it all down.
Full disclosure: Ben advises Anthropic.
We discuss…
How Mythos found 27-year-old bugs in code everyone thought was secure
The offense-defense balance: whether a Ukraine with Mythos and a Russia without it changes the war
Project Glasswing and Anthropic’s attempt to build a private-sector vulnerabilities equities process
Why critical infrastructure patching is about to become a nightmare
What happens when ransomware gets vibe-coded
Why bio won’t be far behind
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