But the rise of AI agents, or AI assistants that can carry out tasks autonomously, takes that risk to another level, some experts warn. Anthropic is also privately warning government officials about the potential for large-scale cyberattacks enabled by Mythos, according to Axios. AI is making it possible to exploit vulnerabilities almost immediately after discovering them, said Evan Peña, chief offensive security officer at cybersecurity firm Armadin. But they lack the context a human hacker would have on what an organization’s most valuable information to steal is, Peña said. That means potentially mining any leaks of US AI models to try to “supercharge their own cyber weapons systems,” he said.

Source: CNN April 03, 2026 23:29 UTC