Prepare for costly disruption as Mythos is introduced, says AI expert | The Business | ABC NEWS

Some of Australia's biggest companies - along with national security agencies - are reportedly getting access to the frontier AI platform that's been deemed by its creator to be too dangerous to release publicly. Anthropic's Mythos will be rolled out to an extra 150 agencies and businesses around the world, including Australia, as part of Project Glasswing - a collaborative effort to defend the world's cyber infrastructure. The Australian Strategic Policy Institute's head of AI and security, David Wroe joined The Business to explain how Anthropic's Mythos limited rollout is likely to take place, as well as the risks that are involved. "For a country like Australia, who's a close US ally, our Australian Signals Directorate, for instance, as a government agency, will be among the first cabs off the rank in Australia to get access to it. For them to be able to apply their expertise will be really, really helpful. Equally for big Australian companies, telcos, banks. Large power providers, they all have their expertise and their particular needs as well. So there might be vulnerabilities that they have that a Microsoft or a CrowdStrike as a cybersecurity company internationally wouldn't be able to fix for them. So direct access from Australia's point of view is definitely a benefit." But David Wroe says Australians might have to get used to being inconvenienced in order to avoid catastrophic sabotage incidences later on. "At the same time, as consumers, I think we need to accept that, for instance, a service provider might have to go offline for 12 hours or so while they patch their systems or while they install newer, better software. The costs might be passed on to us as well, so we have to expect perhaps some higher prices for some of these services." He said. #ABCBusiness Subscribe: http://ab.co/1svxLVE Read more here: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06-03/asx-markets-business-live-news/104687282 Note: In most cases, our captions are auto-generated. #ABCNEWS #ABCNEWSAustralia