White House Plans To Give Federal Agencies Access To Claude Mythos, The A.I. Model Making Everyone Nervous - HuffPost

So the White House, having presumably read the Bloomberg report about how dangerous Mythos is, has decided the best course of action is to give it to federal agencies. The same model that internal experts warned could 'hack foundational computing systems' is now apparently fine for the Social Security Administration and the Department of Energy to play with. One imagines the procurement process involved a single checkbox labelled 'makes everyone nervous' and a brisk signature from someone who's never had to explain a data breach to Congress.

Bloomberg's report notes the tool 'could sharply increase cybersecurity risk'—a wonderfully bureaucratic understatement for something that could theoretically dismantle the very infrastructure it's meant to protect. The plan is to make 'a version' available, which in government-speak likely means 'the one with the safety rails welded on by an intern last Thursday.' It's the digital equivalent of handing out flamethrowers to park rangers to help with controlled burns, then being surprised when the entire forest goes up.

What's particularly delicious is the timing: this comes just as BNY Mellon was quietly handed access to both Mythos and GPT-5.4-Cyber, positioning itself as one of the 'few vetted enterprises.' So the world's largest custodian bank gets vetted access, but federal agencies—with their legendary cybersecurity track record—get what appears to be a blanket rollout. One can only hope the onboarding includes a mandatory training module titled 'Please Don't Let It Hack the Power Grid.' The gap between what Anthropic says about this model's dangers and what governments do with it would be funny if it weren't so perfectly predictable.