Kai Risdahl

The fourth meal, so that late night meal.

I don't know if you saw the reports a couple of weeks ago.

The Treasury Secretary Scott Besant and Chair Powell had gathered the heads of the big Wall Street banks and told them to make sure they have their cybersecurity houses in order because Anthropic's newest artificial intelligence platform, Mythos, it's called, is so dangerously powerful.

And in fact, the company's worried about it, too.

It has only shared a preview version of Mythos with a handful of big tech and finance firms so that they can get a head start on patching whatever security holes that Mythos finds.

OpenAI's latest model is raising concerns as well.

So Marketplace's Megan McCarty Carino set about finding out how organizations are trying to catch up.

So the idea that the models were going to discover bugs in code, like it doesn't really surprise me.

And what we can do in a lab environment today, a professional cybercrime group will be able to do to a real bank or other piece of critical infrastructure within 18 months.

If you're like a board member at a bank or a hospital system, you should be asking one question this quarter.

And it's, what do we need to do to detect and contain an attack that unfolds in an hour?

The old joke is that they sleep like babies.

They wake up every two hours crying.

So you can find stuff faster.

Now the pressure shifts to the other side of the equation, which is are businesses equipped to handle that remediation and containment activity faster?

I think the obvious answer immediately is no.

People have looked at cybersecurity as a form of insurance.

So no one likes necessarily paying insurance premiums.

It's offsetting the chance of something bad happening, which seems quite remote.

It's not a simple risk like a fire.