@peterwildeford @edavidds My guess of the actual story here is that Mythos was given the source code to various classified systems, and for most of them, was able to identify a critical vulnerability within hours. Those vulns would likely not be exploitable without already being on the high-side network.
Sen Warner claimed that he was told by the head of the NSA and Cyber Command that Mythos was breaking into classified systems in hours.
This is an important claim to understand better. I thought Mythos was very good at cybersecurity ...but "break into classified systems in hours" good?
NSA classified networks are physically disconnected from the internet entirely, with specialized hardware controlling what data can even cross between them.
More plausible readings of what actually happened: - This was a simulated exercise against replica systems, not the real NSA network - Mythos was given the relevant code and architecture docs upfront, rather than breaking in blind - It tore through poorly-secured internal IT that got described as "classified systems" - Mythos was operated with significant additional tooling and human expertise
(Of course, none of this means that Mythos's underlying cyber capability isn't alarming! An AI that compresses weeks of expert security research into hours is a genuine threat to systems that *are* connected to networks, as we've seen.)
