2026-04-22
26 分钟The Economist.
Hello and welcome to The Intelligence from The Economist. I'm your host, Jason Palmer.
Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.
In India, there's a big political shift underway.
The country's women are becoming an ever more potent force in the electorate.
Whether what politicians are doing to win them over is vote buying
or genuinely empowering is not entirely clear.
And my former co-host and a sports nut John Fasman is leading us up
to the World Cup by profiling the countries of ten teams that are in contention.
This week, it's Senegal. First up, though.
Normally when someone tells me they've got a new superhuman AI
but I'm not allowed to see it, they're telling tall tales.
But with Anthropic's new Mythos AI system, there's a chance they're telling the truth.
Alex Hern is the Economist's AI writer.
It's a superhuman hacker that's so dangerous they can't release it.
It's forcing skeptics to accept that some of the dangers of AI
may come sooner than they expected.
And it's also making the AI industry reassess its own business model.
So let's start with this new piece of mind-bending tech. What is Mythos?
Claude Mythos is the latest AI system from Anthropic, the makers of Claude.