The NSA reportedly agreed to Anthropic’s "red lines" — no domestic mass surveillance, no autonomous lethal weapons. After the Mythos breach, do those actually hold?

Still trying to make sense of the Mythos/NSA news this week — the NSA confirming Mythos got into most classified networks in hours, not weeks.

What I keep coming back to isn't the breach itself but the arrangement sitting underneath it. The NSA reportedly agreed to a set of red lines with Anthropic: no domestic mass surveillance, no autonomously lethal weapons.

I came across a conversation with Dean Ball that was recorded right before this story broke, where he walks through how that arrangement actually works from the inside. The part that stuck with me: the real question after Mythos isn't "how did this happen," it's whether those red lines survive once there's a genuine panic and pressure to throw them out.