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Big news: US President called AI a threat to the country’s security, asked for a switch to destroy it
Samira Vishwas | April 16, 2026 9:24 PM CST

Washington: Just imagine, a machine that can destroy everything from your bank account to the security of the country within minutes. It sounds like the story of a horror movie, but this same worry has now started troubling US President Donald Trump. Seeing the increasing power of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Trump has made a demand which has created a stir in the entire tech world.

AI’s ‘lightning’ speed and Trump’s big demand

With the speed with which Artificial Intelligence is becoming a part of our lives, its dangers are also becoming equally scary. Experts in the tech world believe that new AI models are so powerful that they can shake everything from the banking system to the security system of a country. Sensing this danger, President Trump now ‘Kill Switch’ Are demanding. Trump believes that if this technology poses any kind of threat to humanity in the future, then we should have the power to stop it immediately.

Shadow looming over banking and security

In an interview with Fox Business Network, Donald Trump talked about both aspects of AI. He said that while on one hand AI can make the banking sector safer and easier, on the other hand there are many big and serious dangers associated with it. Trump stressed that the government desperately needs to have strict safety standards and controls on AI. However, no detailed information has been shared yet on how this ‘kill switch’ will actually work and in whose hands will be its remote.

Claude Mythos: The name that experts are afraid of

This concern of the American President is not unnecessary. Actually, Anthropic’s new AI models Claude Mythos Cyber ​​experts are continuously warning about this. Experts say that ‘Mythos’ is so powerful that it can carry out cyber attacks on a large scale. This poses the biggest threat to those banks which are still working on old software systems.

How powerful is Mythos?

Mythos’ capabilities have given security agencies sleepless nights. During testing, this AI model discovered a 27-year-old software bug, which no human had been able to catch till date. Not only this, Mythos is capable of identifying thousands of such shortcomings which no one even knew about till now. In view of this danger, the US government has put Anthropic in the list of ‘Supply Chain Risk’, which means that government agencies will not be able to use it at present.

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‘Cyber ​​war’ breaks out between OpenAI and Anthropic

Sam Altman’s company OpenAI is also not ready to lag behind in this race of AI. To compete with Anthropic, he GPT 5.4-Cyber Have prepared. This model is specifically designed to find software flaws. While Anthropic has joined hands with big companies like Apple and Amazon, OpenAI is testing its super-powered model with select users. Now it remains to be seen whether this race of technology works for the good of humanity or Trump’s fear of ‘kill switch’ proves true.


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