Anthropic CEO, White House chief of staff convene on Claude Mythos

White House chief of staff Susie Wiles and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei have met to tackle partnership opportunities and attain both innovation and safety in the wake of the announcement of Claude Mythos, an AI model touted to surpass humans in determining critical software issues, reports The Associated Press.

Such a meeting, which involved discussions on cybersecurity and the U.S.'s lead in AI technology, follows the Trump administration's decision to prohibit the use of Anthropic's Claude AI chatbot across the federal government due to the firm's refusal to allow the Defense Department to use its technology in surveillance and fully autonomous weaponry. While Anthropic's claims regarding the capabilities of Claude Mythos have raised skepticism, former White House AI and Crypto Czar David Sacks emphasized the legitimacy of the firm's assertions.

"It just makes sense that as the coding models become more and more capable, they are more capable at finding bugs. That means theyre more capable at finding vulnerabilities. That means theyre more capable at stringing together multiple vulnerabilities and creating an exploit," said Sacks.