Mozilla CTO Raffi Krikorian: Why the AI Policy Debate Should Focus More on the Harness and Protocol Layers

Mozilla CTO Raffi Krikorian argues that the AI policy debate should focus more on the harness and protocol layers. After Anthropic released Mythos to a small number of institutions, the Firefox team used it to discover numerous vulnerabilities in its codebase; he says both writing software and finding vulnerabilities have become cheap. This puts pressure on the open-source generosity model that underpins the internet—OpenSSL was once maintained by just two people and experienced Heartbleed.