What the Pope Actually Said About AI

Today on the AI Daily Brief, what the pope actually said about AI. Before that in the headlines, an update on the Mythos rollout. The AI Daily Brief is a daily podcast and video about the most important news and discussions in AI. Alright, friends. Quick announcements before we dive in. First of all, thank you to today's sponsors, KPMG, Blitsy, robots and pencils, and Section. To get an ad free version of the show, go to patreon.com/aidailybrief, or you can subscribe on Apple Podcasts. And if you wanna learn more about sponsoring the show, send us a note at sponsors@aidailybrief.ai. At the end of last week, we got a quick update about project Glasswing. Now Glasswing, you might remember, was the name that Anthropic had given to the initiative through which they rolled out their new Mythos model in a very limited capacity to around 50 partners. It was all about wrestling with the cybersecurity implications of the model and Anthropic said the project has so far identified more than 10,000 software vulnerabilities of high or critical severity. Most partners, they wrote, have found hundreds of severe vulnerabilities in a little over a month using the model. Testing the model's accuracy on open source repos found less than a ten percent false positive rate. Wrote Anthropic, progress on software security used to be limited by how quickly we could find new vulnerabilities. Now it's limited by how quickly we can verify, disclose, and patch the large number of vulnerabilities found by AI. Anthropic noted that industry standards demand that bugs are not disclosed for three months after identification, meaning that the comments are vague. At the same time, the report highlighted several public statements. Mozilla recently commented that they had found and fixed 271 vulnerabilities, which is more than 10 times the amount they found using Opus 4.6. Palo Alto Networks' most recent release featured five times as many patches as well. The report also noted that some in the finance sector are also using the model for real time fraud detection. For one firm, Mythos was able to detect and prevent a $1,500,000 wire transfer to a threat actor who compromised a customer's account. Now one of the big criticisms of the Mythos rollout has been its exclusivity, with the model provided to only a few dozen top US companies. And in addition to the podcasters and power users of x who have been frustrated that they can't play with the new model, the frustration apparently extends to global policymakers as well. Earlier this month, European officials called in Anthropic to make Mythos available to their financial sector with similar calls having come from The UK, Canada, and governments across Asia. The Australian government held high level talks with Anthropic executives last week in an attempt to gain access. Anthropic, for their part, says that they are currently working with critical partners, including The US and allied governments, to expand Project Glasswing and said that while they look …