AI models that can take down governments and business months away, rare Five Eyes statement warns [View all]

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Source: Guardian

Powerful AI models capable of taking down governments and businesses are mere months away, cyber intelligence agencies for the Five Eyes have warned in a rare joint statement, urging leaders to “act now”.

The surprising public intervention by signals agencies for Australia, the US, the UK, New Zealand and Canada comes after the Trump administration earlier this month decided to block “foreign nationals” from using a much-hyped AI model built by tech company Anthropic, called Fable.

The statement, issued late Monday night Sydney time, said while AI “would help us improve cyber defence over time, it also accelerates the speed, scale, and sophistication of cyber threats”.

“Frontier AI models are anticipated to exceed current industry expectations, fundamentally transforming both offensive and defensive cyber capabilities. The timeline is not years, it is months,” the warning by Five Eyes’ agencies said.

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jun/22/anthropic-claude-fable-ai-model-artificial-intelligence-national-security

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Part of this might be based on Anthropic's own hype about Fable and Mythos. Neither model got as much testing by outsiders as it should have had.

But there's no doubt that the AI companies are doing their best to build more powerful LLMs even though that type of AI still hallucinates and often ignores directions, which really isn't the smartest thing for the companies to do.

Trump of course wants the most powerful AI to be controlled by his regime, though he isn't someone who can be trusted to use it responsibly. Neither is Hegseth. Or Vance or anyone else in the regime. And it's questionable if all the AI bros are sane, let alone if they have any real allegiance to anyone besides themselves or an imaginary AI god they hope will make them godlike. I don't think anyone other than Vance could really know if he's loyal only to himself, to the Constitution, to Trump or to Peter Thiel. I would never bet on Elon Musk caring very much about anyone outside himself. We've always had to worry about bad actors from other countries having powerful weapons, but I don't think there's ever been a time when US allies had so much reason to worry about those with power in the US. I very much doubt the AI bros trust one another (especially Musk) enough to cooperate effectively.

So I don't blame our Five Eyes partners for being worried.