IMF chief says she's concerned about AI cybersecurity risks

Face The Nation IMF chief says she's concerned about cybersecurity risks posed by Anthropic's latest AI model .chip { background-image: url('/fly/bundles/cbsnewscore/images/chip-bgd/chip-bgd-face-the-nation.jpg'); } By Caitlin Yilek Caitlin Yilek Politics Reporter Caitlin Yilek is a politics reporter at CBSNews.com, based in Washington, D.C. She previously worked for the Washington Examiner and The Hill, and was a member of the 2022 Paul Miller Washington Reporting Fellowship with the National Press Foundation. Read Full Bio Caitlin Yilek Updated on: April 10, 2026 / 4:31 PM EDT / CBS News Add CBS News on Google Washington — The head of the International Monetary Fund said she is concerned about a powerful new AI model from Anthropic that poses major cybersecurity risks, warning "time is not our friend on this one." Kristalina Georgieva, the IMF's managing director, said in an interview set to air Sunday on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan" that the world does not have the ability "to protect the international monetary system against massive cyber risks." "The risks have been growing exponentially," Georgieva said. "Yes, we are concerned. We are very keen to see more attention to the guardrails that are necessary to protect financial stability in the world of AI." On Tuesday, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent held an urgent meeting with Wall Street leaders to discuss the cybersecurity risks posed by Anthropic's Claude Mythos Preview, sources told CBS News. A Treasury Department spokesman said in a statement that "additional coordination meetings by Treasury are planned across a number of regulators and institutions on an ongoing basis to address these developments, as well as a host of other issues." In a blog post earlier this week, Anthropic said the model has demonstrated "a leap" in the ability to spot cybersecurity vulnerabilities — some of them decades old — and e...