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Is Anthropic's Claude Mythos really a cybersecurity bombshell?

Anthropic’s newest large language model comes with a warning. Claude Mythos is a skilled hacker, according to its developers, powerful enough to “reshape cybersecurity” if it were rolled out today.

Here & Now‘s Peter O’Dowd speaks with Ina Fried, chief technology correspondent at Axios.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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