ChinaTalk Claude Mythos and National Power
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Apr 12, 2026 
Michael Sulmeyer, former Assistant Secretary of Defense for Cyber Policy, and Ben Buchanan, former White House AI advisor and author, discuss Anthropic’s Mythos and its shock at finding decades-old bugs. They explore how AI reshapes the cyber kill chain, operational effects between states, urgent patching for critical infrastructure, automation of ransomware and malware, and why foundational defenses and policy responses matter.
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Force Urgent Vendor Remediation And Verification
- Push vendors to fix vulnerabilities urgently and verify remediation within set deadlines.
- Michael Sulmeyer highlights Anthropic's plan to return in 90 days to show which partners have applied fixes as a concrete accountability step.
Critical Infrastructure Faces A Patching Bottleneck
- Patching critical infrastructure will be uniquely hard because many industrial systems require long uptimes and infrequent updates.
- Devices and substations often can't tolerate weekly updates, creating high risk if AI rapidly exposes new vulnerabilities.
AI Makes Staying Undetected Easier For Attackers
- AI will help attackers across every stage but especially persistence, by enabling adaptive, low-noise behavior inside compromised networks.
- Michael argues models can blend malicious activity into normal patterns, making detection harder for human operators.
