Anthropic previewed Mythos, a model it says found cracks in foundational open source software that had been tested millions of times. Rather than releasing it publicly, the company hand-picked 40 companies — including Cisco, Microsoft, Apple, and JPMorgan — under a program called Project GlassWing, and distributed roughly $100 million in credits to test whether their systems would survive deployment.

Jessi Brooks argues this is the AGI dictator moment the AI labs said they were building to prevent: a private company performing a national security function with no oversight mechanism, no regulation, and no democratic accountability.

The argument isn’t that Anthropic is wrong — it’s that ‘trust us’ is not a policy. Katherine Kirkpatrick Bos adds the crypto parallel: decentralization was supposed to be the answer to this exact problem, but DeFi’s security track record doesn’t make that case easily. Vy Le pushes for public-private governance as the only path that gives citizens any say in what these companies do.

Hosted by Katherine Kirkpatrick Bos of StarkWare, Jessi Brooks of Ribbit Capital, and Vy Le of Veda.

This clip is from a longer conversation on quantum-resistant Bitcoin, the SEC’s new DeFi front-end guidance, Reg Crypto, and SEAL’s security frameworks. Full episode here: https://youtube.com/live/FIVeNUi3mdg

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