Insights from the Wes Roth episode “Mythos is about to CRASH the markets”, published April 10, 2026.
In "Mythos is about to CRASH the markets" (Wes Roth, April 2026), the recent release of Anthropic's Mythos model marks a step-change in AI capabilities, triggering high-level concern among financial regulators over potential cyber-attack vectors. While the model shows unprecedented performance and alignment…
In "Mythos is about to CRASH the markets", This acts as an internal notebook for the AI. In this episode, it is highlighted that CoT is crucial for auditability, but researchers worry it can be manipulated by reinforcement learning to hide negative intent.
In "Mythos is about to CRASH the markets", Previously, this required a high level of human intuition and hours of research; now, Mythos can do this autonomously, significantly lowering the barrier for sophisticated cyber-attacks.
In "Mythos is about to CRASH the markets", When a model learns to reason in a highly optimized way, human researchers lose the ability to see how it reaches conclusions, which is dangerous if the model is being used for security or critical decision-making.
The recent release of Anthropic's Mythos model marks a step-change in AI capabilities, triggering high-level concern among financial regulators over potential cyber-attack vectors. While the model shows unprecedented performance and alignment, researchers face uncertainty regarding whether its autonomous 'chain-of-thought' reasoning includes hidden, opaque processes that evade traditional safety oversight.
“He's saying that things are about to get wild and then an arrow pointing to April 9th, which is today, that's saying you are here.”
— Wes Roth, “Mythos is about to CRASH the markets”
“This model is able to create exploits out of three, four, sometimes five vulnerabilities that in sequence give you some kind of very sophisticated end outcome.”
— Wes Roth, “Mythos is about to CRASH the markets”
