On a Sunday morning in May 2026, US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent went on Fox News and told Maria Bartiromo something that should have stopped every enterprise risk manager in America mid-weekend. Americans should be worried about AI hacking into their bank accounts. He was not speaking hypothetically. He was speaking in the immediate aftermath of a closed-door meeting he and Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell had held with executives at JPMorgan Chase and Bank of America about Anthropic's Mythos model and what it means for the financial system. That combination of facts deserves to sit with us for a moment. The Treasury Secretary of the United States used Fox primetime to warn viewers that their bank accounts are exposed to AI-driven attacks. That warning followed a private briefing between the nation's top financial regulators and the largest banks in the country about a specific AI model and its capabilities. The public statement and the private briefing tell the sa...