What Mythos Reveals About Zero Trust’s Scope Problem

The coverage of Anthropic’s Mythos Red Team report has followed a predictable arc: a sensational headline, reactions ranging from alarm to dismissal, and little engagement with what the research actually demonstrates. That is worth correcting, because what Mythos reveals is not primarily a story about AI finding vulnerabilities. It is a story about why trusting software is no longer a viable strategy, and what the architectural responseshould be. 

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