Canada’s banking regulator named Claude Mythos in a warning to banks
An April email to bank technology chiefs, released under access-to-information rules, shows OSFI naming Anthropic’s frontier model as a reason the window for fixing flaws is closing.
Regulators do not usually name products. They write about “emerging technologies” and “advanced capabilities” and leave the reader to work out which vendor they mean. So it is worth noticing that when Canada’s banking watchdog wrote to the country’s biggest lenders in April, it named one: Anthropic’s Claude Mythos.
The email, sent on 29 April by the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions to chief technology officers, chief information security officers, and chief risk officers across Canada’s banks and insurers, was obtained by Reuters through an access-to-information request.
“Advanced artificial intelligence models, such as Anthropic Claude Mythos, significantly compress the timeframe for effective risk mitigation,” OSFI wrote. The bulletin, it said, set out “sound practices that institutions can adopt to enhance the...
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