🚨 America's Top Cybersecurity Minds Just Said the Mythos Ban Is Backfiring.
Alex Stamos ran security at Facebook during the most adversarial period in social media history. He knows exactly what happens when defenders lose access to offensive tools — attackers win.
His argument is surgical and correct:
Restricting Mythos doesn't make the capability disappear. China already potentially accessed it. Criminal groups probe every frontier model within weeks of release. The only people genuinely stopped by an export restriction are the American defenders who need it most — the CISOs, red teams, and security researchers protecting critical infrastructure right now.
The asymmetry is brutal. Attackers need to find one vulnerability. Defenders need to find all of them. Mythos-level AI closes that gap for defenders. The White House just closed it back.
Every day Mythos stays restricted is a day American cybersecurity teams fight nation-state attackers with inferior tools while those same attackers potentially run distilled versions of the model Washington couldn't secure in the first place.
Stamos and these leaders aren't arguing against AI safety. They're arguing that a blanket restriction issued in 90 minutes without security review achieves the opposite of its intent.
The policy was reactive. The consequences are structural.
China's cyber teams don't file export restriction waiver requests. They don't wait for White House approval. They operate continuously, at scale, with whatever capabilities they can access or reverse-engineer.
Defenders need the same weapons or the outcome is already decided.
The ban needs to be reversed — or America's cybersecurity posture deteriorates in real time.
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