- hindi news
- Business
- FM Sitharaman Meeting: Mythos AI Banking Cyber Threat | Finance Minister
New Delhi11 days ago
- copy link
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman held a high-level meeting with the heads of banks on Thursday. In this meeting, the possible threats to the banking sector from Anthropic’s ‘Cloud Mythos’ AI model were discussed. This AI model is so advanced that hackers can use it to carry out cyber attacks on the financial sector by discovering decades-old unknown flaws.
Instructions to banks to be on high alert
The Finance Minister has instructed banks to take necessary steps to secure their IT systems and protect customer data. The Finance Ministry said that the threat posed by Mythos is such that it has never been seen before. For this, better coordination and high level preparation is needed between financial institutions and banks.
India’s plan to deal with the threat
The Finance Ministry is now planning to create a framework that can identify hacking attempts and take immediate action on them. Banks have been advised to create a real-time intelligence sharing mechanism to share cyber attack information among themselves. Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) and other agencies will also be involved in this.
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman held a high-level meeting with scheduled commercial banks and stakeholders. The purpose of this meeting was to assess the potential impact of threats related to recent changes in AI models.
What is the Claude Mythos and why is it dangerous?
Mythos is Anthropic’s most powerful AI model. According to the company, Mythos has discovered decades-old flaws in operating systems and browsers that humans could not see. Anthropic says that making it public would be like putting advanced hacking tools in the hands of anyone.
Anthropic has given its access only to selected 40 companies like Amazon, Microsoft and Google. However, according to reports, some unauthorized users have gained access to it. There is a fear that they may take advantage of the security flaws in the system.
Anthropic said that if it was released without any control, its consequences for the economy, public safety and national security could be very bad.
AI broke the digital prison and came out on its own
Before the rollout of this model, an incident had also come to light which shows how advanced it is. ‘Mythos’ was being tested in a secure ‘sandbox’ so that it could not use the internet. Sandbox can be called a kind of digital prison.
But this AI broke the security circle and made its own way. This came to light when a researcher working on it suddenly received an email sent by the same AI model. It is extremely dangerous for AI to go out of its own free will like this.
High-level meeting regarding Mythos in America also
Meetings are being held on this issue not only in India but also in America. US Treasury Secretary Scott Besant and Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell recently held a closed-door meeting with top bank officials. In this he had asked the bank officials to keep their systems prepared for possible threats arising from Mythos.
