As Anthropic Mythos drove a fresh wave of headlines this week—highlighting both its advanced capabilities and how easily such systems could be misused—I made my way to a conference room just outside Washington, D.C.
There, a cross-sector group of AI security practitioners, standards-setters, and policy experts had gathered to figure out what securing AI should actually look like.
Outside the industry, their acronyms—SANS, NIST, CoSAI, OWASP—may not mean much. Inside security, they help set the rules organizations around the world follow. But right now, those rules are struggling to keep up.
I had been invited to sit in on the discussion as organizations race to plug AI into everything—handing over sensitive data and critical workflows—even as those same systems are becoming more attractive targets for adversaries. ⬇️
NEW for 👁️ on AI: AI security leaders gather in Washington as risks mount—and Mythos raises the stakes
I was there too! ⏬
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