Tan Kiat How on managing risks from frontier AI models

The government does not have access to Mythos and it is not aware of any local bank that has been granted access. More broadly, the government does not assume that it will always have early access to every frontier model. Instead, it maintains close working relationships with various partners on capability developments and safety and security implications. Senior Minister of State for Digital Development and Information Tan Kiat How, who said this in reply to parliamentary questions on Tuesday (May 5), stressed the need to understand the advances in capabilities enabled by Mythos to be part of a continuum. The issue is not any single model like Mythos, he said. The underlying shift is broader, the risks are real and the government is treating them with the seriousness they deserve, he added.