Pentagon Reportedly Plans to Adopt and Weaponize Latest Cyber-Capable AI Models
The Pentagon is reportedly planning to adopt and weaponize advanced AI models with hacking capabilities, as indicated by a recent report. This initiative, led by Cyber Command and the NSA, aims to explore how these AI models can be safely deployed in military operations. Despite previous tensions with Anthropic, the company behind the AI model, the Pentagon is considering its use for offensive operations.
- ▪The Pentagon is seeking to adopt and weaponize AI models like Claude Mythos Preview.
- ▪This initiative was announced by Joshua Rudd, leader of Cyber Command and director of the NSA.
- ▪The task force will study how to safely deploy AI models in military missions and assess their use on sensitive systems.
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According to a report from Politico, the Pentagon is seeking to adopt and weaponize frontier AI models with hacking capabilities like Claude Mythos Preview. Politico’s reporting comes from a leaked email and two anonymous sources. The Pentagon is theoretically not supposed to use Claude Mythos Preview openly. While Anthropic’s still-unreleased model is ostensibly too scarily powerful to release to the public—which surely makes it extra intriguing to the military—it’s also controlled by a company the Pentagon melodramatically shunned earlier this year. Though litigation is still pending, the Pentagon has officially designated Anthropic a supply chain risk after a prolonged public disagreement, and—officially at least—must work with its competitors instead.
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