The new model is being doled out for testing to 40 carefully vetted organizations that maintain critical infrastructures and only then so it can give them a heads up on the unprecedented danger it poses.
Bob Maginnis, national defense analyst and author of AI for Mankind's Future, says it has the ability to hack any security system known to man.
“Not only can it identify and exploit vulnerabilities faster than any human hacker, but it's found thousands of critical weaknesses in systems like our operating systems, our hospitals, our infrastructure.
Axios reports in could unleash untold catastrophe.
Some inside the government fear that most top leaders are oblivious to the sudden danger from terrorists or hostile powers.
There is concern that too few government leaders will pay attention to the Mythos threat until it’s too late.
“D.C. governs by crisis," said an Axios source briefed on Mythos. "Until this is a crisis, and gets the attention and resources it deserves, cyber is kind of a backwater."
“It could empty all bank accounts. It can cut off electricity and water. It can cause all airplanes to crash. Any system that's tethered to the internet, it can be shut down,” Maginnis said.
It has already shown the ability to break out of sterile testing environments and executes attack sequences on its own, without human direction.
“So, it's autonomous and hacking, and it's 24-7, and it attacks multiple targets simultaneously, and it never runs out of energy. It's an army of hackers in one,” Maginnis said.
Maginnis says the U.S. should already be on a Manhattan Project footing.
“I think this is a clarion call for immediate action. We're in a crisis emergency, just like preparing the atomic weapons for World War II. This is a hundred times worse than anything that Iran ever threatened the world with, and yet we're seeing the consequences of that.”
