--- title: China’s state security minister names two US AI models... description: China's minister of state security, Chen Yixin, publicly named Anthropic's Claude Mythos and OpenAI's GPT-5.5-Cyber as threats to Chinese infrastructure in a... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/china-s-state-security-minister-names-two-us-ai-models-as-a-cyber-threat-0o0f6ijzt twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: China’s state security minister names two US AI models as a cyber threat | daily.dev og:description: China's minister of state security, Chen Yixin, publicly named Anthropic's Claude Mythos and OpenAI's GPT-5.5-Cyber as threats to Chinese infrastructure in a... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/china-s-state-security-minister-names-two-us-ai-models-as-a-cyber-threat-0o0f6ijzt og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/0O0f6IJZt.png og:image:alt: China’s state security minister names two US AI models as a cyber threat og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # China’s state security minister names two US AI models as a cyber threat **[The Next Web](https://daily.dev/sources/tnw)** · 5 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary China's minister of state security, Chen Yixin, publicly named Anthropic's Claude Mythos and OpenAI's GPT-5.5-Cyber as threats to Chinese infrastructure in a signed article in China Cyberspace journal. He argues these models sharply raise the efficiency of vulnerability discovery and malware development, lowering the cost and technical barrier to cyberattacks. The article gives no example of an actual attack tied to either model and doesn't quantify exposure. It sits within a broader six-risk framework covering political security, data leaks, AI monopoly, social governance, and military conflict, and calls for a domestic prevention system plus international AI governance rules favorable to Beijing. Both companies market the same capability as defensive; other governments, like the EU's cybersecurity agency, are testing rather than denouncing similar models. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### Why did China's state security minister name Claude Mythos and GPT-5.5-Cyber as cyber threats? Chen Yixin, China's minister of state security, argued in a signed article that these two AI models mark a point where AI sharply raises the efficiency of vulnerability discovery and malware development, lowering the technical threshold and cost of cyberattacks. He gave no specific example of an attack or incident tied to either model, and did not quantify any resulting exposure to Chinese systems. _Anyone weighing AI security claims against evidence can track how these stories develop on daily.dev._ ### Is there evidence that AI models are actually being used to find and exploit real-world vulnerabilities more often? Vulnerability discovery has roughly doubled using AI according to VulnCheck data, but almost none of those newly found flaws were then exploited in the wild, so discovery and actual exploitation are running at very different rates. This contrasts with claims that AI-discovered vulnerabilities are already causing widespread damage. _Developers assessing real AI security risk versus hype can follow this evidence trail on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [China champions open AI to the world. 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