Donald Trump to regulate AI after Anthropic’s Mythos posed cybersecurity threat
Donald Trump to regulate AI after Anthropic’s Mythos posed cybersecurity threat
https://www.jpost.com/business-and-innovation/tech-and-start-ups/article-895605
Publish Date: 2026-05-09 02:29:00
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The White House might stop freely promoting artificial intelligence technology, with reports from both The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post indicating that the US government will adopt a more cautious stance after witnessing the capabilities of Anthropic’s Mythos, the latest generation of AI models.
According to the Thursday WSJ report, US Vice President JD Vance was “alarmed” after a call with the heads of the biggest artificial intelligence companies, with the Mythos model among the most worrying because of its ability to find software vulnerabilities on its own.
The main factor, according to the WSJ, is that these new models could target critical infrastructure administered by local authorities rather than the national government, with the local governments lacking the tools to disrupt such attacks when they occur.
US National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett said the Trump administration was working on a way to regulate how high-tech companies introduce new AI models to the market, with the main proposal being a system similar to the FDA’s for testing new drugs.
This would, according to Hassett, guarantee that “they’re released to the wild after they’ve been proven safe,” while an official working on the project told The Washington Post that the details of how it would work are “still being hashed out.”
FILE PHOTO: Anthropic logo is seen in this illustration taken May 20, 2024. (credit: REUTERS/DADO RUVIC/ILLUSTRATION/FILE PHOTO)
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