Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei (Krisztian Bocsi/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Anthropic is set to give the European Union's cybersecurity agency, ENISA, access to Mythos, a powerful AI model designed to identify security flaws in software, according to Bloomberg. ENISA would become the first E.U. body to gain access to the model.
The AI company communicated the decision to the European Commission over the weekend, according to Bloomberg, citing unnamed sources. Through Project Glasswing, ENISA will be able to evaluate Mythos alongside a limited set of organizations before the model reaches a broader audience. An Anthropic representative declined to comment.
The European Commission confirmed it had held discussions with the company. "I can confirm that the Commission had several productive meetings with Anthropic. We welcome the latest developments on potential future access," Commission spokesman Thomas Regnier said, according to Reuters. The exact terms and timing of ENISA's access have not been made public.
Anthropic first previewed Mythos in April as part of Project Glasswing, according to CNBC. Its release set off a wave of alarm across the public and private sectors — from finance ministries to major technology companies — over the prospect that a tool capable of surfacing vast numbers of undiscovered software flaws could end up enabling the very attacks it was designed to defend against. Anthropic has described those risks as the reason for its measured rollout. So far, only a handful of recipients have been brought into the program: federal agencies along with some of the largest American banks and technology companies. Access was extended to the U.K.'s AI Security Institute not long after Mythos was first unveiled, according to Bloomberg.
