British banks will be given access in the next week to a powerful AI tool that was deemed too dangerous to be released to the public, as a series of senior finance figures warned over its impact.

Anthropic, which has so far limited the release of the new model to a small clutch of primarily US businesses, including Amazon, Apple and Microsoft, said it would expand that to UK financial institutions.

“That is in the very near term, in the next week,” Pip White, Anthropic’s head of UK, Ireland and northern Europe operations, said in a Bloomberg TV interview. “As you would expect, the engagement I have had from UK CEOs in the last week has been significant.”

Anthropic, which is the company behind the Claude family of AI tools, has said that its latest model, Mythos, poses an unprecedented risk because of its ability to expose flaws in IT systems.

“AI models have reached a level of coding capability where they can surpass all but the most skilled humans at finding and exploiting software vulnerabilities,” Anthropic said in a blogpost earlier this month. “The fallout – for economies, public safety, and national security – could be severe.”

Finance ministers, executives and regulators have discussed the potential threats as they gathered in Washington this week for the IMF and World Bank spring meetings, while also handling concerns over the global ramifications spilling over from the US-Israeli war with Iran.
财政部长、高管和监管机构本周在华盛顿召开国际基金组织和世界银行春季会议时，讨论了潜在威胁，同时也应对了美以战争带来的全球影响。

The Canadian finance minister, François-Philippe Champagne, told the BBC: “Certainly it is serious enough to warrant the attention of all the finance ministers … The difference with the strait of Hormuz is that we know where it is and we know how large it is.
加拿大财政部长弗朗索瓦-菲利普·香槟告诉 BBC：“这无疑严重到值得所有财政部长关注……霍尔木兹海峡的不同之处在于，我们知道它的位置和它的大小。

“The issue that we’re facing with Anthropic is that it’s an unknown unknown. It requires a lot of attention so that we have safeguards, and we have processes in place to make sure that we ensure the resiliency of our financial system.”
“我们在 Anthropic 面临的问题是，这是一个未知的未知。这需要大量关注，以确保我们有保障措施，并建立相关流程以确保金融系统的韧性。”

Andrew Bailey, the governor of the Bank of England who also chairs the Financial Stability Board of global regulators, said: “It is a very serious challenge for all of us. It reminds us how fast the AI world moves.”
英格兰银行行长、同时担任全球金融稳定委员会主席的安德鲁·贝利表示：“这对我们所有人来说都是非常严峻的挑战。它提醒我们人工智能世界变化有多快。”

However, he said regulators were having to consider whether, and how hard, to clamp down on the technology, as governments seek to reap AI’s economic rewards. “What is the optimum moment to frame the rules of the road?” Bailey asked. “If you go too early you a) risk missing the target and b) you risk distorting the evolution, and if you go too late things can get out of control.”
不过，他表示，监管机构必须考虑是否以及对该技术的管控力度如何，因为各国政府正寻求从人工智能的经济利益中获益。“什么时候是制定交通规则的最佳时机？”贝利问道。“如果你太早行动，a）有可能错过目标，b）你可能会扭曲进化过程;如果太晚，事情可能会失控。”

The European Central Bank’s president, Christine Lagarde, said: “The development we’ve seen with Anthropic and Mythos is a good example of a responsible company that is suddenly thinking: ‘Ah, that could be really good’ – but if it falls in the wrong hands, it could be really bad.
欧洲央行行长克里斯蒂娜·拉加德表示：“我们看到的 Anthropic 和 Mythos 的发展，是一个负责任公司的典型例子，它突然意识到：’啊，这可能非常好’——但如果落入错误之手，情况可能会非常糟糕。

“Everybody is keen to have a framework within which to operate,” Lagarde told Bloomberg TV. But she added: “I don’t think there is a governance framework that is there to actually mind those things. We need to work on that.”
拉加德告诉彭博电视：“每个人都渴望有一个运作框架。”但她补充道：“我认为没有一个治理框架能真正管理这些事情。我们需要改进这个问题。”

The US treasury secretary, Scott Bessent, summoned US bank bosses to Washington last week to discuss the Mythos model. That meeting focused on systemically important banks – where regulators believe that a major disruption to their operations, or their potential collapse, would put financial stability at risk.
美国财政部长斯科特·贝森特上周召集美国银行高层前往华盛顿，讨论 Mythos 模型。会议重点关注系统性重要的银行——监管机构认为，若其运营发生重大中断或潜在倒闭，将危及金融稳定。

UK regulators are due to raise the issue of Mythos’s risks with bank bosses and government officials in the coming weeks.
英国监管机构预计将在未来几周向银行高层和政府官员提出 Mythos 的风险问题。

Dan Katz, deputy head of the IMF and former chief of staff to Bessent, said: “The evolution of digital technology is posing immense risks from a cybersecurity perspective … this is really going to be absolutely essential on the international agenda for the next few months.”
国际货币基金组织副总裁、前贝森特幕僚长丹·卡茨表示：“数字技术的发展从网络安全角度带来了巨大风险……这在接下来的几个月里将成为国际议程中绝对不可或缺的议题。”