Anthropic Mythos – We’ve Opened Pandora’s Box

Anthropic Mythos – We’ve Opened Pandora’s Box

May 1, 2026 · 9 min

About this episode

The episode discusses the potential early arrival of a cybersecurity apocalypse due to advancements in quantum computing.

For a decade the cybersecurity community was predicting a cyber apocalypse tied to a single event – the day a Cryptographically Relevant Quantum Computer could run Shor’s algorithm and break the public-key cryptography systems most of the internet runs on. It’s possible that the first cybersecurity apocalypse may have come early.

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