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๐จAI Emptied Bank Accounts in Minutes and Planned a Lawmaker's Kidnapping in 30 Seconds
House Homeland Security Committee Chair Andrew Garbarino says Anthropic's latest Mythos AI model demonstrated capabilities that "SCARED" lawmakers during a closed-door briefing, as per Punchbowl News.
According to Garbarino, Anthropic showed members a scenario where Mythos was instructed to find a vulnerability at a bank and EMPTY private customer accounts.
"It went and did it," Garbarino said.
He added that the same model was then able to identify the vulnerability and patch it, highlighting both the offensive and defensive capabilities of advanced AI systems.
One model reportedly generated a detailed plan to kidnap a lawmaker in about 30 seconds after being jailbroken.
Garbarino warned that AI companies have also demonstrated successful "jailbreaks," where safety guardrails were bypassed.
He also warned that increasingly agentic AI models could be used by malicious actors to attack critical infrastructure by autonomously carrying out tasks such as shutting down gas pipelines or manipulating chemical levels in water treatment facilities.
"You have the ability to not just learn how to do it, but to tell it to do it for you," Garbarino said.
"I'd say 95% of my colleagues don't understand what the hell's going on," he said.
He added that federal agencies and Congress should receive access to frontier AI models before public release.
The remarks come as the White House has reportedly restricted public access to Anthropic's Mythos model while urging OpenAI to delay the release of its next frontier AI system over national security concerns.
๐จ HOLY CRAP! President Trump issued a DIRECT THREAT to Iranian negotiators in Switzerland
"You close [the Strait] and you won't have a country. You wonโt even make it BACK to your f**king country.โ
10+ years as a full-stack dev taught me one brutal truth: 70% of the job is figuring out what to build, not how to code it.
The rest is debugging your own assumptions.
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