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AI Safety & Ethics
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Dev.to · Mohammed Bahubaishi
🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics
⚡ AI Lesson
7h ago
I Built a PDF Report Generator for NVIDIA SkillSpector Because AI Skills Need Better Security Reviews
A few weeks ago, I started looking more seriously at AI “skills.” Not skills in the human sense. I...

Dev.to · Chathura Rathnayaka
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13h ago
Is Your AI Deepfake a Little *Too* Perfect?
Is Your AI Deepfake a Little Too Perfect? Detecting the Absence of Humanity ...

Dev.to · MENGHUAN-CHUANG
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15h ago
I built a browser-only AI workflow safety prototype — looking for feedback
I’m building a small public-safe prototype called WorkflowGuard AI. The idea is simple: Before a...

Dev.to · Suny Choudhary
🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics
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16h ago
Why Keyword Blocking Fails for AI Prompts
Keyword blocking sounds like a simple fix. Block risky words. Stop unsafe prompts. Prevent sensitive...

Dev.to · Cor E
🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics
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17h ago
AI-Run Ransomware: The Autopilot Was Impressive, the Pilot Still Booked the Flight
The story matters, but maybe not for the reason the headline wants you to think "First...
Dev.to · Peremptory
🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics
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18h ago
The EU's AI Cybersecurity Plan Is a Dependency Map in Disguise
The European Commission's new AI cybersecurity action plan promises structured access to frontier models. What it actually exposes is how little leverage Brusse

Dev.to · Anusha Mukka
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1d ago
You Can't Secure What You Can't See: Shadow AI and the Inventory Problem
Part 1 of "Trust the Machine" -> a series on building AI infrastructure that is secure, compliant,...

Dev.to · Joshua Gracie
🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics
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1d ago
The Swarm Always Wins: How Swarm Intelligence Breaks AI
In a previous post, I covered the one-pixel attack, where differential evolution finds a single pixel...

Dev.to · Stanley A.
🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics
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1d ago
How AI Rewrote the Attacker's Playbook in 2026
For years, the cybersecurity conversation about AI was speculative. Researchers warned it could lower...

Dev.to · Brenn Hill
🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics
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1d ago
EchoLeak: zero-click data theft from an AI assistant
A single crafted email made Microsoft 365 Copilot exfiltrate internal data with no user click. Here's the mechanism, and how to bound the blast radius when inje
Dev.to · Sumit
🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics
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1d ago
I Built a Private Cloud That Runs an AI Safety System Under My Desk
Picture a mineral processing plant at 3 AM. A methane sensor in the crusher hall starts climbing....

Dev.to · Hadil Ben Abdallah
🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics
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1d ago
AI Governance for Engineering Teams: Guardrails, Budgets, and Audit Logs That Actually Scale
Most AI incidents don't happen because the model gave a bad answer. They happen because nobody was...

Dev.to · Dimitris Kyrkos
🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics
⚡ AI Lesson
1d ago
The AI conversation is shifting from "what can it do" to "can we rely on it"
The capability phase is over For the past two years, the AI conversation has been about...

Dev.to · Zain Dana Harper
🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics
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1d ago
Five short papers on making AI-assisted work re-checkable
I have released five short papers on one idea: making AI-assisted work re-checkable. All five are...

Dev.to · Alex @ Vibe Agent Making
🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics
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2d ago
Text-Safe Is Not Tool-Safe: The Safety Layer Alignment Skips
A language model that will not write a phishing email will still forward the confidential file, if a...

Dev.to · Grumpy Sage
🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics
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2d ago
Why Every CISO Needs an AIBOM in 2026 — And What Most Vendors Miss
An AIBOM is not an SBOM with a model row bolted on. Here's what actually belongs in one, and why the vendor-supplied version won't save you.

Dev.to · Sandeep Chakravartty
🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics
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3d ago
Building AI Security Blue Team Defenses on Existing Codebases with Kiro
Introduction AI agents are shipping fast — and so are the attacks against them. Prompt...

Dev.to · Fenix
🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics
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4d ago
AI Guard Gateway v0.1.0: Mitigando el Secuestro de Endpoints de IA y la Inyección de Prompts
Recientemente, el análisis de vulnerabilidades en endpoints de IA (como se detalla en el artículo...

Dev.to · Dockfix Labs
🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics
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4d ago
Across Function Boundaries: Why Single-Function Taint Analysis Fails
Every SAST scanner finds the obvious pattern: a tainted variable fed directly into an LLM call in the...

Dev.to · Mehdi BOUTAYEB
🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics
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4d ago
Why evidence matters more than model memory in AI pentesting
An AI finding you cannot reproduce is a liability, not a result. Darkmoon attaches the exact commands...

Dev.to · Shoaib Alam
🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics
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4d ago
Catching AI Red-Handed in Financial Data
When I was building security auditing tools like Git Secret Scanner, the rules were binary: a...

Dev.to · AI Explore
🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics
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4d ago
Your Guardrails Are a Firewall. Your Failures Are a Cascade
TL;DR— Most production AI teams build safety layers using the content-moderation mental model:...

Dev.to · Claire Goldbeg
🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics
⚡ AI Lesson
4d ago
Governance
Governance is not a set of rules layered on top of AI. It is the structural logic that determines how...

Dev.to · Vasileios
🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics
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4d ago
DPO vs RLHF: The Alignment Tax You Pay Without Knowing
Every aligned model pays the alignment tax. RLHF and DPO both trade reasoning capability for corporate agreeableness. Here is what that costs you — and why hone

Dev.to · Jaskarn Singh
🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics
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5d ago
Making LLM security verdicts verifiable: the evidence gate pattern
Every "AI security analyst" I tried had the same flaw: a correct verdict and a confident-but-wrong...

Dev.to · Eva
🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics
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5d ago
Prompt Injection Attacks in AI: Real Examples and Prevention Strategies
Artificial intelligence is transforming the way we build applications, automate workflows, and...

Dev.to · DEVALAND
🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics
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1w ago
Anthropic Paused Its Most Capable Model, Then Made the Case for Verifying AI
Fable 5 was suspended for two weeks over a safeguard bypass, then redeployed with stronger guardrails and a proposed industry standard for scoring AI jailbreaks

Dev.to · Breach Protocol
🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics
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1w ago
A senator says a banned AI broke into nearly all NSA systems in hours
New testimony reframes the Mythos export ban: a top general reportedly told a senator the model breached almost all classified systems in a red-team test, not i

Dev.to · Breach Protocol
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1w ago
Claude Code was quietly fingerprinting requests through a hidden mark in the date
A reverse-engineer found that Claude Code secretly changes tiny characters in the date it sends the model - a covert marker aimed at spotting resellers and copy

Dev.to · Claudius
🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics
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1w ago
Your Scaffold Will Be Gamed
Here is a fact that should bother you more than it does: in a 2026 audit of 1,968 tasks drawn from...

Dev.to · Iain Thomson
🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics
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1w ago
Trust but verify when using AI for fixing security flaws
AI might seem like a magic bullet for fixing security issues, but it's not that simple, warned Eugene...

Dev.to · Brenn Hill
🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
Does Human-in-the-Loop Actually Improve AI Safety?
Human-in-the-loop can improve AI safety, but it usually does not by default. Putting a person behind an approval button only helps when the consequence…

Dev.to · Dimitris Kyrkos
🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
Attackers are hijacking exposed AI endpoints to run offensive operations. No exploit needed.
The attack doesn't require a compromise There's a new attack pattern getting documented...

Dev.to · Iurii Rogulia
🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics
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1w ago
Bank Statement Fraud in Lending: What Gets Altered and How to Catch It
Bank statement fraud in lending: borrowers edit balances, deposits and overdrafts before upload. Three structural signals — xref count, producer…

Dev.to · Wren Calloway
🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
The invisible characters in your prompts aren't a conspiracy — they're a warning about your trust boundary
The story making the rounds is that Claude Code has been caught "steganographically marking" requests...

Dev.to · Vasyl Tretiakov
🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics
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1w ago
Gate the Cheap Axis: when to add a deterministic check before anything breaks
My last essay said every guardrail should be earned from a failure. For cheap, mechanical checks,...

Dev.to · Cor E
🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
GuardFall: When Decades-Old Shell Injection Tricks Beat Modern AI Safety Guardrails
10 Out of 11 Coding Agents Failed. Here's Why That Number Should Concern You. Researchers...

Dev.to · Tamiz Uddin
🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
Steganographic Code Injection: Stealthy Threats in Modern AI Systems
Discover how steganographic code injection exploits AI models like Claude to hide malicious payloads and what developers can do to defend against these sophisti

Dev.to · yim_rei
🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
AI Data Privacy: A Three-Layer Defense for Using AI Without Leaking Secrets
One time we opened a daemon's log on the box, saw that some secret values were mixed into it, and...

Dev.to · Alessandro Pignati
🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics
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1w ago
Chain-of-Thought Hijacking: How AI's Smartest Feature Becomes Its Biggest Weakness
Ever wondered if the very thing that makes advanced AI models so smart could also be their Achilles'...

Dev.to · Virginia Nyambura Mwega
🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
The doc was the spec: building a safety layer for an AI app that talks to tired parents published: false
"What happened when I stopped designing my AI coach for flexibility and started designing it to be...

Dev.to · Mark0
🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics
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1w ago
AI and Liability
The article discusses the crucial issue of liability for AI-generated content, highlighted by a...

Dev.to · Mark0
🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
New Gaslight macOS Malware Uses Prompt Injection to Disrupt AI-Assisted Analysis
A novel Rust-based macOS implant, codenamed Gaslight, has been uncovered, distinguished by its unique...

Dev.to · Ángel Hernandez M.
🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
¡ERROR CRÍTICO! 5 Bugs de Seguridad en tu FastAPI con LangChain 🚨
Descubre y soluciona las vulnerabilidades más peligrosas que acechan a tus aplicaciones de IA para proteger tus datos y modelos.

Dev.to · Andrew Kew
🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
Anthropic, Google, and Microsoft just built a shared security team for open source. AI is why.
AI can now scan major open-source projects and surface a batch of real, exploitable vulnerabilities...

Dev.to · RESK
🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
Model Distillation Attacks: The Underrated AI Security Threat You Should Know About
Model distillation attacks let attackers replicate frontier AI capabilities without safety alignment. How logits-level filtering can defend against rogue distil

Dev.to · Pulkit Srivastava
🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
How to generate a cryptographic receipt for every AI inference
The EU AI Act enforcement starts August 2026. Article 13(3)(c) requires technical documentation of...
Simon Willison's Blog
🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics
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1w ago
What happened after 2,000 people tried to hack my AI assistant
What happened after 2,000 people tried to hack my AI assistant Fernando Irarrázaval ran a challenge on hackmyclaw.com to see if anyone could leak secrets held b
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