The U.S. is scrambling to strengthen guardrails around increasingly powerful artificial intelligence models before China can catch up.
It may already be running out of time.
New AI models, such as Anthropic’s Claude Mythos and OpenAI’s GPT 5.5-Cyber, have advanced faster than legislation regulating the technology can keep pace. They have both shown a remarkable ability to identify software vulnerabilities and launch cyberattacks — skills that hackers and cyber adversaries are hungry to exploit.
Recent estimates suggest that the U.S. has at most six to 12 months before Beijing gains access to a frontier model with prowess comparable to Mythos or GPT 5.5-Cyber or develops an AI competitor that could eventually be wielded as a cyber weapon.
“It’s a hurricane warning, not a seawall,” Rob T. Lee, chief AI officer at cybersecurity research company the SANS Institute, said of the time the U.S. has to prepare before this new wave of hyper-advanced AI models changes the cybersecurity calculus entirely.
The U.S. is scrambling to strengthen guardrails around increasingly powerful artificial intelligence models before China can catch up.
It may already be running out of time.
New AI models, such as Anthropic’s Claude Mythos and OpenAI’s GPT 5.5-Cyber, have advanced faster than legislation regulating the technology can keep pace. They have both shown a remarkable ability to identify software vulnerabilities and launch cyberattacks — skills that hackers and cyber adversaries are hungry to exploit.
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