- The Five Eyes alliance warned that cutting-edge GenAI models will enable advanced cyberattacks against businesses and governments within months.
- The statement highlighted that cyber risk is now a leadership and business continuity issue, requiring a whole-of-society response.
- It comes amid concerns about Anthropic’s Mythos Preview and other models already showing offensive potential despite safety barriers.
In just a few months, high-end Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) models will be capable of executing cyberattacks on large companies and government organizations, Five Eyes warns.
The Five Eyes is an intelligence-sharing alliance between the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Formed after World War II, it allows the five countries to cooperate closely on intelligence and national security issues.
Earlier this week, Five Eyes issued a new warning, saying that AI will help improve cyber defense over time, but will also accelerate the speed, scale and sophistication of threats: “Frontier AI models are anticipated to exceed current industry expectations, fundamentally transforming both offensive and defensive cyber capabilities. The timeline is not years, but months,” the warning says. “In this environment, cyber resilience is critical to promoting business continuity, market confidence and long-term value.”
All hands on deck
Five Eyes now says the industry needs all hands on deck to address what is increasingly becoming a hot topic:
“A response is required from the entire organization and the entire society,” he stated. “Cyber risk can no longer be treated as a purely technical issue. It is a fundamental business risk and leadership responsibility.”
In early April, news emerged that Anthropic’s latest AI model, Mythos Preview, was so good at exploiting software vulnerabilities that the company couldn’t release it to the public. Instead, it only shared it with a handful of American companies, to give them an advantage against threat actors.
While skeptics said it was nothing more than a publicity stunt, similar to what OpenAI achieved with ChatGPT 2.0, the companies that used it (e.g. Mozilla) confirmed that it was, in fact, powerful enough to keep under control.
Even the models available today, despite all the barriers, are regularly exploited by bad actors in different cyber attack scenarios.
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