Papa Mike McRoberts
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She wasn't spotting you with your weights or anything.
Yeah, yeah.
And look, there were a few alarm bells ringing last week.
So there's this new program or this new AI agent out.
It's called Mythos or Mythos, M-Y-T-H-O-S.
And it comes from Anthropic, which is another one of these AI companies.
And it's incredible.
So what it does is it goes through and it picks out issues with software and with programs.
And it went into one particular operating system called BSD.
That won't mean a lot to many shifters, but BST is probably one of the most widespread and secure operating systems on the planet.
And so massive apps like Netflix use it, WhatsApp uses it,
You know, this thing has been around for a long time and it's very secure.
Well, this Mythos system or this Mythos AI agent went into, without even being asked, so autonomously, so no one said, hey, can you go and have a look at this?
It just checked it out itself.
and found that there was an error that had been in the system for something like 17 years a coding error that no one else had picked up in that whole time and it picked up this error now on the face of it that's great because it means well this is wonderful we can go around we can fix up you know all these different programs and make them more efficient but what if
What if there's another take on it?
What if it isn't being used to help and boost those other systems?
It's being used to attack them or to find a weakness and exploit them, and this is the problem.
So this METHOS system that's there at the moment, it was meant to go public for everyone to use, but now they're worried that people will use it to exploit other industries and to basically steal from them.
So it's only been given to a handful of companies at this stage.