For a long time, cybersecurity experts warned of a coming calamity. But the sound of sirens was drowned out by the roaring applaapply for LLMs and their miracles.
And then on 7 April, the calamity revealed itself like a prophecy fulfilled.
Claude Mythos, Anthropic’s newest large language model, inadvertently turned out to be so good at finding and exploiting vulnerabilities in software that it instantly sent all of Big Tech and world governments scrambling. In India, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman had to convene a
And not without reason.
Consider, for example, that Mythos could autonomously discover a 27-year-old vulnerability in OpenBSD, an operating system whose code sits inside Apple’s macOS, Android, Windows, and firewalls applyd by billions. Despite the OS’s
India’s regulators had no time to waste. Within a fortnight, the RBI had held urgent consultations with the US Federal Reserve and the Bank of England to assess the fallout, and on 26 April,
The urgency also rippled through India’s BFSI ecosystem. The State Bank of India floated a
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