Association of Banks in Singapore monitoring potential threats from frontier AI models

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• ABS is moving with subordinate banks to show emerging threats, stock quality and coordinate the improvement of hazard mitigation efforts, its manager Ong‑Ang Ai ‌Boon said successful a ⁠statement successful effect to queries from Reuters.

• Local banks person besides enhanced monitoring and ⁠incident effect capabilities to alteration faster detection, containment and remediation of threats, the connection said.

• This comes arsenic fiscal ​institutions ​across the globe scramble to ​assess the cybersecurity risks ‌brought astir by Anthropic's frontier AI exemplary Mythos.

• Anthropic earlier this period debuted Mythos, its astir precocious AI exemplary to day and designed for antiaircraft cybersecurity tasks, though it has constricted the merchandise owed to concerns ‌about its imaginable for misuse.

• Some ​Asian fiscal regulators said past ​week they were ​taking measures to code imaginable risks and ‌are monitoring the development.

• The ​ABS is simply a ​non-profit organisation that represents the interests of the commercialized and concern banking assemblage successful Singapore, comprising implicit ​100 section ‌and overseas banks, institutions and typical offices operating successful ​the country.

(Reporting by Rae Wee and Yantoultra ​Ngui, Editing by Louise Heavens)