Silicon Valley start-up Anthropic has restricted access to its latest AI system, saying it is currently too dangerous to release to the public.
The company said its Claude Mythos Preview model was so good at finding critical security flaws in computer systems that it could “reshape cybersecurity”, wreaking havoc if it ended up in the wrong hands.
The system has already discovered thousands of security vulnerabilities including flaws in all the most popular web browsers and operating systems.
Anthropic said it was giving a group of the world’s top technology companies – including Amazon, Apple and Microsoft – access to the system under an agreement called Project Glasswing, so that they would be able to fix any security flaws that it discovered.
