The new AI model that could steal your life savings

可能窃取您毕生积蓄的新型人工智能模型

The Indicator from Planet Money

2026-05-11

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Anthropic’s AI model, Claude Mythos, is very powerful. SO powerful it can find software vulnerabilities that might let it, I don’t know, steal your bank login information. Anthropic is holding back the model from a wider release for now. Today on the show, how worried should we really be about Mythos? And are its capabilities actually unique? The Indicator has a weekly newsletter! Sign up now: npr.org/indicatornewsletter  Related episodes:  Fighting AI with AI How AI might mess with financial models For sponsor-free episodes of The Indicator from Planet Money, subscribe to Planet Money+ via Apple Podcasts or at plus.npr.org. Fact-checking by Sierra Juarez. Music by Drop Electric. Find us: TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, Newsletter.   See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for sponsorship and to manage your podcast sponsorship preferences. NPR Privacy Policy
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  • 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.