Claude Mythos triggers cybersecurity fears at highest levels: Powell, Bessent summon Wall Street CEOs

In a move that signals how the worry about AI capabilities has reached the bedrock of the global financial system, U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell recently called on the heads of America’s most systemically important banks to an urgent, short-notice meeting at the Treasury Department on Tuesday.

The agenda was not interest rates or inflation, but a new development in the field of cyber security and Artificial intelligence that has taken the internet by a storm: Anthropic’s “Claude Mythos“.