Vance, Bessent questioned tech giants on AI security before Anthropic’s Mythos release

it's obvious that the questions about ai security are being treated as regulatory theatre rather than immediate operational mandates. meeting the fed and bank heads about 'mythos' is more about managing public perception than fixing a glaring, immediate vulnerability.

the problem is that the models themselves are opaque black boxes, and the security measures are often theoretical. when you're dealing with frontier models, the risk isn't just a hack; it's systemic failure or misalignment leading to catastrophic outcomes. the emphasis should be on mandatory, auditable security frameworks, not just high-level assurances.

we're talking about putting massive liability on the developers, but the implementation of those security standards is lagging far behind the development of the models. it's a massive gap between theoretical risk assessment and practical defensive engineering.