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    Illustration: When AI Models Refuse to Fight Hackers
    Axios TechnologyOctober 21

    AI safety guardrails are blocking defenders mid-breach, forcing security teams toward less capable or less safe alternatives.

    AI safety guardrails are blocking defenders mid-breach, forcing security teams toward less capable or less safe alternatives.

    Frontier AI models are refusing to help security teams at the worst possible moment. During a sustained attack on OpenCode, its engineers watched their AI investigation tools shut down once queries touched malicious code—even as defenders, not attackers, held the keyboard. The te

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