Autonomous Exploit Generation: Claude Mythos Risk
Bruce Schneier analyses Anthropic's Claude Mythos Preview and Project Glasswing, a controlled deployment programme aimed at finding and patching software vulnerabilities before the model is publicly released due to its advanced cyberattack capabilities. The piece highlights a growing offensive AI capability gap, noting that newer LLMs can autonomously chain memory corruption bugs and operationalise exploits without human orchestration, while observing that defenders currently retain a marginal advantage because vulnerability discovery is easier than exploitation. Schneier warns that this advantage is narrowing rapidly and that the industry must prepare for a world of commoditised zero-day exploits.