2026-05-11
9 分钟NPR.
In April, Treasury Secretary Scott Besant and Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell
called a special meeting with bank CEOs.
They wanted to make sure banks were keeping their digital vaults secure in an age of rapidly advancing AI.
They were responding to the AI company Anthropics announcement.
The AI company said it had a new model that was so state-of-the-art,
so clever, so dangerous that it could n't yet release it to the wider public.
Anthropic called the model Claude Mythos.
Michael Moore heads up the company's cybersecurity products.
He says the new model could identify thousands of software vulnerabilities.
What that means is someone who was writing the software at some point didn't quite do something right.
And that left a door kind of ajar.
And an attacker can get in through that door.
This is The Indicator from Planet Money.
I'm Darian Woods.
And I'm Waylon Wong.
Today on the show, is our money still safe in our bank accounts?
We learn about the double-edged sword of increasingly capable AI.
And we ask whether Claude Mythos' unique capabilities are just a myth.
Or a meef.