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Frontier AI Models Will Transform Cyber Offense and Defense Within Months, Five Eyes Say
Officials from the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and New Zealand said frontier AI models are expected to exceed current industry expectations and fundamentally change both offensive and defensive cyber capabilities. The three-page statement urged rapid software patching and greater use of AI for defense.
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The intelligence alliance known as the Five Eyes issued a three-page statement on Monday stating that frontier AI models are anticipated to exceed current industry expectations and fundamentally transform both offensive and defensive cyber capabilities. “The timeline is not years, it is months,” the statement said.
The statement was light on detail and mostly restated core cybersecurity advice such as swiftly patching faulty software and not putting systems online unless necessary. The officials also urged defenders to use AI to strengthen defense, for example by identifying weaknesses sooner or responding more quickly to incidents.
The warning cited models such as Anthropic’s Mythos and OpenAI’s GPT-5.5-Cyber, which are said to allow users to quickly execute complex and potentially devastating hacks. Earlier this month, Anthropic was forced to disable a version of Mythos after the U.S. government ordered it to suspend access to the models for foreign nationals over alleged national security concerns.
Around the same time, the U.S. cyber-defence agency CISA, which co-signed Monday’s statement, reduced the deadlines imposed on government officials to deal with serious digital vulnerabilities in their networks to three days, citing AI threats.
