Mythos AI Sparks Fear and Confusion Among Global Finance Elite

War and an historic energy shock are tough financial stability risks to compete with.

Yet Anthropic’s as-yet unreleased AI model Mythos added a layer of dread to conversations among policymakers gathered in Washington at two institutions created eight decades ago to help foster global economic harmony.

At the spring meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, the military conflict in the Middle East dominated the talks and forced governments to dust off crisis response plans, pledge cooperation where possible, and bolster consumption with fiscal and monetary tools. With Mythos, there were far more questions than answers.

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