News Summary

• The Bank of Italy is in touch with global providers of artificial ‌intelligence technology.
• The central bank launched in recent days discussions with national authorities, financial players and their IT services providers.
• Bank supervisors' concerns over the ‌risks linked to the spread of AI technology in the sector have recently focused on Anthropic's Mythos model.
• Designed to find flaws in computer code to help ‌bolster defences against cyberattacks, Mythos is seen by cybersecurity experts as capable of turbo-charging attacks on banks' technology systems.