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Bessent and Powell’s A.I. Anxiety

The Treasury secretary and the Fed chairman reportedly summoned banking leaders to discuss the potential systemic risks of Anthropic’s new model. Andrew here. Is artificial intelligence going...

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Bessent and Powell’s A.I. Anxiety

The Treasury secretary and the Fed chairman reportedly summoned banking leaders to discuss the potential systemic risks of Anthropic’s new model.

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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, left, and Jay Powell, the Fed chair, worry that new A.I. tools could pose risks to the U.S. financial system.

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A.I. as systemic financial risk

Anthropic made waves this week when it announced its latest artificial intelligence model — but

restricted its use

to a few dozen companies to search for and patch up critical cybersecurity flaws in their infrastructure.

Some skeptics called the move fearmongering or marketing. But reports that top U.S. financial regulators convened the heads of major banks to discuss the risks of the model underscored real-world concerns about ever more capable A.I.

The news:

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Jay Powell, the Fed chair,

summoned several Wall Street chiefs

on short notice Tuesday to discuss Anthropic’s model, named Claude Mythos Preview, Bloomberg reported.

On the agenda was ensuring that the banks were aware of the cybersecurity risks that Mythos and similar A.I. models in the future could pose — and that the banks were safeguarding against them.

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