Anthropic Briefs EU Regulators on Mythos Cybersecurity Concerns

European Union officials met with Anthropic Wednesday (April 15) to discuss concerns about the company’s Mythos artificial intelligence (AI) model, and more such meetings are planned, Agence France-Presse reported Thursday (April 16).

European Commission spokesman Thomas Regnier shared this news with reporters, saying the AI model comes with risks, and the EU needs information about those risks, according to the report.

“We’re reaching out to the platform, to Anthropic,” Regnier said, per the report. “We have received certain information.”

Reuters reported Friday (April 17) that Regnier said the European Commission and Anthropic are discussing the company’s AI models, including its cybersecurity ones, and that Anthropic has committed to the EU’s general purpose AI code of practice.

“In this framework, there is an obligation to assess and mitigate risks that could come from a service that may or may not be offered in Europe,” Regnier told reporters, per the report.

It was reported April 7 that Anthropic unveiled a program called Project Glasswing that will allow select partners to gain early access to Claude Mythos Preview.

Mythos is being positioned specifically for defensive cybersecurity work, and the initiative is meant to allow partners to identify vulnerabilities and strengthen systems before threats can be exploited.

In its announcement of Project Glasswing, Anthropic said the company “has also been in ongoing discussions with US government officials about Claude Mythos Preview and its offensive and defensive cyber capabilities.”

Thursday’s report from Agence France-Presse said that no non-U.S. entities were included among the 40 major tech companies to which Anthropic offered early access to Mythos.

It was reported Thursday that government officials and bankers outside the U.S. are concerned that they may not receive the same information sharing as their American counterparts when it comes to Mythos.

Canada’s Finance Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne told Bloomberg Wednesday that he wants to raise the issue of Mythos with his counterparts and that: “We have a common interest to ensure the resiliency of our financial system.”

It was reported Wednesday that Anthropic is ready to begin offering Mythos to British banks, expanding Project Glasswing to provide more organizations with early access to the AI model.