Experts warn Australia is unprepared for machine-paced AI cyberattacks
Experts warn Australia is unprepared for machine-paced AI cyberattacks
Publish Date: 2026-05-04 00:02:00
Source Domain: www.afr.com
A few weeks ago in these pages I wrote that we had crossed the Rubicon on cyber risk: that the threshold between human-paced attack and machine-paced attack had been crossed by Anthropic’s Mythos. That the model would not stay contained. That OpenAI was close behind.
Within a fortnight, Anthropic confirmed it was investigating reports that unauthorised users had been accessing Mythos Preview through a third-party contractor portal, on the same day the model was announced. The containment that the entire Glasswing access model rested on had failed at the starting gate. Late last week the UK Government’s AI Security Institute confirmed the rest: frontier labs are sprinting, and capability is growing.
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