Researcher: Ecosystem-level defense exercises beat model kill switches
evijit · x · 2026-09-16
In a debate on AI security, @evijit argues that practitioners habitually push model-level safeguards and kill switches while neglecting broader ecosystem defense evaluations and hardening exercises, which he considers far more actionable. Asked whether any system can be permanently safe from future hacks, he notes no system is, but a recent incident improved their security posture against automated attacks, leaving them stronger than before.
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