The Danger of Mythos: Digital Sovereignty of the Global South under Mortal Threat

Threats emanating from a powerful upcoming Large Language Model (LLM) to the world’s digital infrastructure demonstrate how the US is pushing the world towards the brink of a new informational disaster.

Threat posed by Mythos

“Powerful” would rather be a euphemism for this LLM. In field trials, Mythos has found vulnerabilities in almost every major web browser and operating system around the world that have gone unnoticed over the past several decades. In fact, the United Kingdom’s AI Security Institute (ASI) thoroughly examined Mythos and made a startling discovery—in comparison to other frontier models, this model managed to successfully resolve 73% of the most complex cybersecurity challenges.

This assumes significance in light of the fact that unlike earlier LLMs, which acted in a series of incoherent steps and possessed multiple chains of command, Mythos demonstrated increasingly high levels of agentic behavior—where it is acting in a coherent manner involving multiple systemic steps in attacking the cybersecurity problems.

While it comes as possibly good news for cyber defensive capabilities, it........

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