House Homeland panel gets briefing on Anthropic’s Mythos
House Homeland panel gets briefing on Anthropic’s Mythos
Publish Date: 2026-05-14 13:08:00
Source Domain: www.nextgov.com
Members of the House Homeland Security Committee were briefed Wednesday on Mythos, the Anthropic artificial intelligence model that has drawn vast attention across the cybersecurity community for its advanced hacking capabilities.
Anthropic executives provided the panel with a live demonstration of Mythos, allowing members to see how advanced AI can identify and reason through software vulnerabilities, according to a committee aide who attended the briefing and requested anonymity to communicate details of the demo.
“What we saw reinforced the urgency of ensuring that federal agencies, including our civilian cyber defenders, can responsibly access and deploy the most advanced U.S. models to find and patch vulnerabilities before foreign adversaries or criminal actors exploit them,” said the aide, who noted the briefing was one of the first live demonstrations delivered to Congress.
President Donald Trump is meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping this week, where AI competition is expected to come up in the discussion. Last month, the White House accused Beijing of attempting to copy components of U.S. AI systems to build similar models of its own through a process known as distillation.
“As the [People’s Republic of China] aggressively works to close the AI innovation gap with the United States, the committee remains focused on ensuring that America’s AI leadership translates into a durable national security advantage, not a temporary lead that adversaries can copy, steal or rapidly commoditize,” the aide added.
The briefing was “productive and focused on a range of AI security and competitiveness issues,” according to a second person familiar with the demo.
Members discussed how the U.S. can preserve its advantage in AI, including maintaining leadership in compute power and preventing China from obtaining advanced chips, said the person, who added that attendees discussed safeguards for advanced AI models and ensuring future systems are developed…
