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 as 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,…
