Vice President JD Vance raised concerns in a call with major AI company leaders,
including OpenAI’s Sam Altman, Anthropic’s Dario Amodei, Elon Musk, Sundar
Pichai and Satya Nadella, that advanced AI models such as Anthropic’s Mythos
could autonomously identify software vulnerabilities and potentially enable
cyberattacks on critical infrastructure like banks, hospitals and water systems.
According to people familiar with the discussion, Vance urged coordination among
companies and the government, while the White House is considering an executive
order to create formal oversight for frontier AI models and has asked Anthropic
to delay broader deployment of Mythos. National Cyber Director Sean Cairncross
is leading the response effort, though the approach has reportedly triggered
internal debate over whether it represents an overreaction or a policy shift.
