WASHINGTON—As artificial intelligence grows in power and scope, it may be threatening critical U.S. intelligence.
Alarm has mounted on Capitol Hill in recent weeks amid claims that frontier AI models have shown the capacity to breach highly encrypted classified systems. However, some cybersecurity experts have said the threat may be overstated—at least for now.
At a Senate hearing on June 11, Senate Intelligence Committee Vice Chair Mark Warner (D-Va.) recounted being notified by the National Security Agency (NSA) that the Mythos AI model, developed by Anthropic, “broke into almost all of our classified systems, not in weeks, but in hours.”…