Mythos Myths: Good Guys Hold More Cybersecurity Cards, Insurer CEO Says
Mythos Myths: Good Guys Hold More Cybersecurity Cards, Insurer CEO Says
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Publish Date: 2026-06-18 17:07:00
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No offense to the members of the media, but the media tends to blow this stuff up.
That’s how Jim Williamson, president and chief executive officer of insurer and reinsurer Everest Group Ltd., prefaced his answer to a question about managing cybersecurity risks in the age of AI during the S&P Global Ratings 42nd Annual Insurance Conference last week.
“On cyber risk, we are in the same arms race we were before AI,” Williamson believes, chiding the media for exaggerating the Mythos model story and the ability of bad guys to get into companies and exploit faults at a pace.
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Warnings from Anthropic that its Claude Mythos model was too dangerous to release to the public spawned the media articles. In an April 7 post on its website, Anthropic said the “Mythos Preview has already found thousands of high-severity vulnerabilities, including some in every major operating system and web browser. Given the rate of AI progress, it will not be long before such capabilities proliferate, potentially beyond actors who are committed to deploying them safely.”
“On cyber risk, we are in the same arms race we were before AI.”
Jim Williamson, Everest
“The fallout—for economies, public safety and national security—could be severe,” the statement warned, also disclosing the launch of Project Glasswing, restricting access to a limited group of major tech, finance and security organizations to use in cybersecurity work to identify and repair vulnerabilities in critical software infrastructure.
More recently, after Williamson spoke at the S&P conference, the U.S. government “issued an export control directive to suspend all access” to Mythos and to a more heavily secured AI model, Claude Fable, “by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States,” according to a June 12 statement from Anthropic. Effectively, the government order forced Anthropic to abruptly disable the models for all its customers to…
