Anthropic’s Mythos Forges a New Era of Cyber Chaos

Anthropic’s Mythos Preview is framed as a “nuclear moment” for cyber power: an AI model that autonomously discovers and weaponizes thousands of zero‑day vulnerabilities, threatening to outpace patch cycles and erode traditional deterrence. The piece argues that Mythos enables chaotic asymmetry—potentially empowering non‑state actors and broadening access to offensive capabilities—while Glasswing remains too narrow to avert risk. It calls for a post‑Mythos policy: a whole‑of‑government strategy led by a senior official, mandatory real‑time vulnerability sharing across critical infrastructure, and federally empowered patching modeled on FAA/NRC frameworks to dramatically shrink exposure in high‑risk sectors within the next 12–18 months, before the window closes.