AI security is now a token-burning contest. Who's watching the bill?

AI security is now a token-burning contest. Who's watching the bill? Simon Willison just reframed AI-assisted security research as proof of work: throw more tokens at the problem, get better results. That's an economic reality, not a metaphor. If your security team is running Claude Mythos and similar tools at scale, you are now in a compute-spend arms race. Someone needs to be watching the bill. Willison published a piece this week arguing that cybersecurity research with frontier AI is startin