Ryan Bridge: The terrifying news about Mythos AI

Early Edition with Ryan Bridge · Apr 22, 2026 · 2m · transcript

You heard the news about this AI hacking beast called Mythos?

It's a bit scary to be honest. And what's reported to have happened with it in the last seven hours is even scarier.

It's basically a big AI-powered cyber-hacking machine. It can spot flaws in operating systems – in some tests, it is better at doing this than human hackers.

Central banks are worried. Retail banks are worried. Governments are worried. We should be, too.

Even Anthropic, which owns it, is worried. They haven't released it to the public.

In the wrong hands, it's that dangerous.

But what they did do was release it to a…