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AI safety measures hinder offensive cybersecurity research

TechCrunch has interviewed offensive cybersecurity researchers who say that safety measures in OpenAI and Anthropic's models make it harder to find unknown vulnerabilities and develop tools to exploit them.

WHY IT MATTERS

The tension between AI safety and legitimate research is becoming increasingly important – if guardrails block security research, it could both reduce accountability and impact the ability to find real threats before they are exploited.

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