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Alignment, interpretability, AI risks, and building safe AI systems

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I Built a PDF Report Generator for NVIDIA SkillSpector Because AI Skills Need Better Security Reviews
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...
Is Your AI Deepfake a Little *Too* Perfect?
Dev.to · Chathura Rathnayaka 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics ⚡ AI Lesson 13h ago
Is Your AI Deepfake a Little *Too* Perfect?
Is Your AI Deepfake a Little Too Perfect? Detecting the Absence of Humanity ...
I built a browser-only AI workflow safety prototype — looking for feedback
Dev.to · MENGHUAN-CHUANG 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics ⚡ AI Lesson 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...
Why Keyword Blocking Fails for AI Prompts
Dev.to · Suny Choudhary 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics ⚡ AI Lesson 16h ago
Why Keyword Blocking Fails for AI Prompts
Keyword blocking sounds like a simple fix. Block risky words. Stop unsafe prompts. Prevent sensitive...
AI-Run Ransomware: The Autopilot Was Impressive, the Pilot Still Booked the Flight
Dev.to · Cor E 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics ⚡ AI Lesson 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...
The EU's AI Cybersecurity Plan Is a Dependency Map in Disguise
Dev.to · Peremptory 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics ⚡ AI Lesson 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
You Can't Secure What You Can't See: Shadow AI and the Inventory Problem
Dev.to · Anusha Mukka 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics ⚡ AI Lesson 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,...
The Swarm Always Wins: How Swarm Intelligence Breaks AI
Dev.to · Joshua Gracie 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics ⚡ AI Lesson 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...
How AI Rewrote the Attacker's Playbook in 2026
Dev.to · Stanley A. 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics ⚡ AI Lesson 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...
EchoLeak: zero-click data theft from an AI assistant
Dev.to · Brenn Hill 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics ⚡ AI Lesson 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
I Built a Private Cloud That Runs an AI Safety System Under My Desk
Dev.to · Sumit 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics ⚡ AI Lesson 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....
AI Governance for Engineering Teams: Guardrails, Budgets, and Audit Logs That Actually Scale
Dev.to · Hadil Ben Abdallah 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics ⚡ AI Lesson 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...
The AI conversation is shifting from "what can it do" to "can we rely on it"
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...
Five short papers on making AI-assisted work re-checkable
Dev.to · Zain Dana Harper 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics ⚡ AI Lesson 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...
Text-Safe Is Not Tool-Safe: The Safety Layer Alignment Skips
Dev.to · Alex @ Vibe Agent Making 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics ⚡ AI Lesson 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...
Why Every CISO Needs an AIBOM in 2026 — And What Most Vendors Miss
Dev.to · Grumpy Sage 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics ⚡ AI Lesson 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.
Building AI Security Blue Team Defenses on Existing Codebases with Kiro
Dev.to · Sandeep Chakravartty 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics ⚡ AI Lesson 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...
AI Guard Gateway v0.1.0: Mitigando el Secuestro de Endpoints de IA y la Inyección de Prompts
Dev.to · Fenix 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics ⚡ AI Lesson 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...
Across Function Boundaries: Why Single-Function Taint Analysis Fails
Dev.to · Dockfix Labs 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics ⚡ AI Lesson 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...
Why evidence matters more than model memory in AI pentesting
Dev.to · Mehdi BOUTAYEB 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics ⚡ AI Lesson 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...
Catching AI Red-Handed in Financial Data
Dev.to · Shoaib Alam 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics ⚡ AI Lesson 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...
Your Guardrails Are a Firewall. Your Failures Are a Cascade
Dev.to · AI Explore 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics ⚡ AI Lesson 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:...
Governance
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...
DPO vs RLHF: The Alignment Tax You Pay Without Knowing
Dev.to · Vasileios 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics ⚡ AI Lesson 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
Making LLM security verdicts verifiable: the evidence gate pattern
Dev.to · Jaskarn Singh 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics ⚡ AI Lesson 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...
Prompt Injection Attacks in AI: Real Examples and Prevention Strategies
Dev.to · Eva 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago
Prompt Injection Attacks in AI: Real Examples and Prevention Strategies
Artificial intelligence is transforming the way we build applications, automate workflows, and...
Anthropic Paused Its Most Capable Model, Then Made the Case for Verifying AI
Dev.to · DEVALAND 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics ⚡ AI Lesson 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
A senator says a banned AI broke into nearly all NSA systems in hours
Dev.to · Breach Protocol 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics ⚡ AI Lesson 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
Claude Code was quietly fingerprinting requests through a hidden mark in the date
Dev.to · Breach Protocol 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics ⚡ AI Lesson 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
Your Scaffold Will Be Gamed
Dev.to · Claudius 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics ⚡ AI Lesson 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...
Trust but verify when using AI for fixing security flaws
Dev.to · Iain Thomson 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics ⚡ AI Lesson 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...
Does Human-in-the-Loop Actually Improve AI Safety?
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…
Attackers are hijacking exposed AI endpoints to run offensive operations. No exploit needed.
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...
Bank Statement Fraud in Lending: What Gets Altered and How to Catch It
Dev.to · Iurii Rogulia 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics ⚡ AI Lesson 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…
The invisible characters in your prompts aren't a conspiracy — they're a warning about your trust boundary
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...
Gate the Cheap Axis: when to add a deterministic check before anything breaks
Dev.to · Vasyl Tretiakov 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics ⚡ AI Lesson 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,...
GuardFall: When Decades-Old Shell Injection Tricks Beat Modern AI Safety Guardrails
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...
Steganographic Code Injection: Stealthy Threats in Modern AI Systems
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
AI Data Privacy: A Three-Layer Defense for Using AI Without Leaking Secrets
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...
Chain-of-Thought Hijacking: How AI's Smartest Feature Becomes Its Biggest Weakness
Dev.to · Alessandro Pignati 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics ⚡ AI Lesson 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'...
The doc was the spec: building a safety layer for an AI app that talks to tired parents published: false
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...
AI and Liability
Dev.to · Mark0 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
AI and Liability
The article discusses the crucial issue of liability for AI-generated content, highlighted by a...
New Gaslight macOS Malware Uses Prompt Injection to Disrupt AI-Assisted Analysis
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...
¡ERROR CRÍTICO! 5 Bugs de Seguridad en tu FastAPI con LangChain 🚨
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.
Anthropic, Google, and Microsoft just built a shared security team for open source. AI is why.
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...
Model Distillation Attacks: The Underrated AI Security Threat You Should Know About
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
How to generate a cryptographic receipt for every AI inference
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 ⚡ AI Lesson 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