Zero Trust for AI Systems: Why Authorization Can’t Live Inside the Model

The Coalition for Secure AI's Preparing Defenders for AI workstream (WS2) released a paper in September 2026 titled "Zero Trust for AI Systems," a guide for applying zero trust security design to AI systems as a new category of insider threat. The paper argues that authorization cannot live inside the model itself, and the release follows several frontier incidents over the summer, according to CoSAI.

September 2026 CoSAI’s Preparing Defenders for AI workstream WS2 has released its latest paper, Zero Trust for AI Systems, a guide for applying one of security’s most established design patterns to the newest category of insider threat: the AI system itself. The timing isn’t abstract. Over the summer, several frontier … The post Zero Trust for AI Systems: Why Authorization Can’t Live Inside the Model https://www.coalitionforsecureai.org/zero-trust-for-ai-systems-why-authorization-cant-live-inside-the-model/ appeared first on Coalition for Secure AI https://www.coalitionforsecureai.org .