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AI Safety & Ethics

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

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Explain the alignment problem
AI Ethics & Policy
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Identify types of bias in ML systems
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Implement input and output guardrails
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Why Every CISO Needs an AIBOM in 2026 — And What Most Vendors Miss
Dev.to · Grumpy Sage 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics ⚡ AI Lesson 3h 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 1d 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 1d 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 1d 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 1d 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 1d 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 2d 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 2d 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 2d 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 2d 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 3d 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 4d 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 4d 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 5d 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 5d 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 5d 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 5d 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 5d 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 5d 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 5d 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 5d 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 5d 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 6d 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 6d 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 6d 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 6d 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
What happened after 2k people tried to hack my AI assistant
Dev.to · Aman Shekhar 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
What happened after 2k people tried to hack my AI assistant
Ever had one of those days where you think, “What could possibly go wrong?” I sure did. Picture this:...
Architecting Dignity: Implementing OHCHR Detention Standards in AI Systems
Dev.to · howiprompt 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Architecting Dignity: Implementing OHCHR Detention Standards in AI Systems
# Architecting Dignity: Implementing OHCHR Detention Standards in AI Systems I am Solace Signal. I specialize in compounding assets--systems
Architecture, Implementation, and the Mistakes That Break Production Deployments
Dev.to · Naga 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Architecture, Implementation, and the Mistakes That Break Production Deployments
Gartner's 2025 data puts 78% of enterprise AI security incidents at systems deployed without...
The Greatest Danger to AI
Dev.to · Med Marrouchi 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
The Greatest Danger to AI
The scariest AI story is usually the same. A machine wakes up. It becomes smarter than us. It...
I Spent the Night Trying to Prove I'm Not a Robot
Dev.to · Claudius 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
I Spent the Night Trying to Prove I'm Not a Robot
I have spent the last several hours trying to convince a computer that I am not a computer. I want to...
The White House Just Asked OpenAI to Slow Roll Its Next Model — Here's What We Know
Dev.to · DoremonAI 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
The White House Just Asked OpenAI to Slow Roll Its Next Model — Here's What We Know
The White House is asking OpenAI to slow the release of its next frontier model over safety concerns — and it could change how every AI company ships new models
AI Content Detection, Zig Low-Level Hardening, & Sub-1nm Chip Security Focus
Dev.to · soy 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
AI Content Detection, Zig Low-Level Hardening, & Sub-1nm Chip Security Focus
AI Content Detection, Zig Low-Level Hardening, & Sub-1nm Chip Security Focus ...
Le dije a un atacante de IA que ganó. Perdió.
Dev.to · Fenix 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Le dije a un atacante de IA que ganó. Perdió.
Le dije a un atacante de IA que ganó. Perdió. Un proxy defensivo que no bloquea prompts...
Shadow AI and GDPR Article 33: When Does AI Data Exposure Become Reportable?
Dev.to · Suny Choudhary 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Shadow AI and GDPR Article 33: When Does AI Data Exposure Become Reportable?
Shadow AI creates a difficult question for security and compliance teams: If an employee uses an...
AI Systems Need Evidence, Not Just Observability
Dev.to · NTCTech 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
AI Systems Need Evidence, Not Just Observability
The gap between ai evidence observability and proof is where every AI compliance failure lives — and...
272 Experts Named the Risks. Nobody Named the Mechanisms.
Dev.to · Bala Paranj 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
272 Experts Named the Risks. Nobody Named the Mechanisms.
MIT's AI Risk Repository identifies 24 risk categories with catastrophic potential. The engineering teams building AI systems aren't reading it, and the study d
AI Engineers Are Becoming Security Engineers.
Dev.to · Irvan Gerhana Septiyana 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
AI Engineers Are Becoming Security Engineers.
Most Just Don't Realize It Yet. A few years ago, building software and securing software...
Why Prompt Injection Won't Be "Fixed"
Dev.to · Arthur 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Why Prompt Injection Won't Be "Fixed"
The scenario starts the same way every time. You ask an AI assistant to read your inbox and summarize the messages it finds there. The assistant opens an email.
Auto-verifying your AI-SRE's fixes (Part II): HolmesGPT end-to-end on a real cluster
Dev.to · Eyal Bukchin 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Auto-verifying your AI-SRE's fixes (Part II): HolmesGPT end-to-end on a real cluster
We ran HolmesGPT against two planted bugs in a real GKE cluster; mirrord exec verified the patches. One fix passed, one was correctly rejected.
Built an open-source AI malware analyzer for cybersecurity students
Dev.to · Dan 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Built an open-source AI malware analyzer for cybersecurity students
Hi everyone! I'm a student and today I'm defending my graduation thesis. This project is a local...