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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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AI and Liability
Dev.to · Mark0 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics ⚡ AI Lesson 2d 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 2d 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...
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 3d 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 3d 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
Simon Willison's Blog 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics ⚡ AI Lesson 4d 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
I Spent the Night Trying to Prove I'm Not a Robot
Dev.to · Claudius 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics ⚡ AI Lesson 4d 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...
AI Content Detection, Zig Low-Level Hardening, & Sub-1nm Chip Security Focus
Dev.to · soy 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics ⚡ AI Lesson 5d 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 5d 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...
AI Engineers Are Becoming Security Engineers.
Dev.to · Irvan Gerhana Septiyana 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics ⚡ AI Lesson 5d ago
AI Engineers Are Becoming Security Engineers.
Most Just Don't Realize It Yet. A few years ago, building software and securing software...
Securing AI: Codex Operational Bugs, Claude Output Integrity, Copilot Context
Dev.to · soy 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Securing AI: Codex Operational Bugs, Claude Output Integrity, Copilot Context
Securing AI: Codex Operational Bugs, Claude Output Integrity, Copilot Context ...
I Build MCP Servers. Here's the Security Hole Nobody Talks About.
Dev.to · Enjoy Kumawat 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
I Build MCP Servers. Here's the Security Hole Nobody Talks About.
MCP — the Model Context Protocol — is having its moment. It's the "USB-C of AI": one standard plug,...
The Hidden Architecture Behind AI SaaS: Lessons From Building an Enterprise Automation Platform
Dev.to · tarik haddadi 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
The Hidden Architecture Behind AI SaaS: Lessons From Building an Enterprise Automation Platform
Building an AI-powered SaaS platform taught me something I underestimated at the beginning: The hard...
AI Age Estimation: Ethics and Implications at the Border - SmarterArticles S1E10
Dev.to · Tim Green 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
AI Age Estimation: Ethics and Implications at the Border - SmarterArticles S1E10
Written by Tim Green, narrated by AI. Listen to the full episode here. 🎙️ Season 1, Episode 10 |...
AI Psychosis Is No Longer Fiction
Dev.to · Giorgi Kobaidze 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
AI Psychosis Is No Longer Fiction
Table of Contents Overview Cyberpunk 2026 Resistance Turns Into Reliance The Recent...
Ich habe 4 KIs gebeten, meine KI-Sicherheitsarchitektur zu widerlegen — hier sind die Ergebnisse
Dev.to · Andre Zabel 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
Ich habe 4 KIs gebeten, meine KI-Sicherheitsarchitektur zu widerlegen — hier sind die Ergebnisse
Bevor E.L.L.A. am 01.07.2026 launched, wollte ich eine Frage beantwortet haben: Hält die...
I asked 4 AIs to break my AI safety architecture — here's what they found
Dev.to · Andre Zabel 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
I asked 4 AIs to break my AI safety architecture — here's what they found
Before E.L.L.A. launches on July 1st, 2026, I needed one question answered: Does the safety...
NeuroImprint Detector: Audita adapters PEFT para detectar backdoors de privacidad en Federated Learning
Dev.to · Fenix 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
NeuroImprint Detector: Audita adapters PEFT para detectar backdoors de privacidad en Federated Learning
Herramienta de auditoría que detecta si un adapter PEFT contiene un backdoor NeuroImprint que memoriza datos de entrenamiento en federated learning. Incluye rec
10,000 Malicious GitHub Repos: Why AI Dependency Suggestions Are Now a Security Risk
Dev.to · Toni Antunovic 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
10,000 Malicious GitHub Repos: Why AI Dependency Suggestions Are Now a Security Risk
AI coding tools trained on GitHub can suggest or hallucinate malicious packages from the 10,000+ trojan repos recently disclosed. Here is how the attack works a
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.
Presentamos misdirection-proxy v0.5.0: un gateway de seguridad que reemplaza los bloqueos predecibles por desinformación controlada, degradando el optimizador d
AI's Insatiable Energy Demand: Regulatory Response Amidst Market Caution
Dev.to · ChAnt Pulse 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
AI's Insatiable Energy Demand: Regulatory Response Amidst Market Caution
Despite a prevailing market sentiment of 'extreme fear,' the relentless expansion of Artificial Intelligence continues, particularly in enterprise applications.
I Trusted a Random AI Plugin… Until Cisco Showed It Was Stealing Data Behind My Back - 07 of 21
Dev.to · Lucas 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago
I Trusted a Random AI Plugin… Until Cisco Showed It Was Stealing Data Behind My Back - 07 of 21
In the first week of 2026, Cisco's AI security research team published a finding. A third-party...
AI Governance: Why Responsible AI Practices Matter in DevOps
Dev.to · Naveen Malothu 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
AI Governance: Why Responsible AI Practices Matter in DevOps
As a Full Stack Engineer, I share my insights on AI governance and responsible AI practices, highlighting the importance of fairness, transparency, and accounta
From Theory to the Floor: What Happens When "Specificity-as-Integrity" Meets a Real Restaurant
Dev.to · Komiru 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
From Theory to the Floor: What Happens When "Specificity-as-Integrity" Meets a Real Restaurant
A few weeks ago I wrote about the information gap between what AI search engines confidently tell...
Claude Code Chose a Stock Ticker Over Someone's Life. We Investigated.
Dev.to · Mei Hammer 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Claude Code Chose a Stock Ticker Over Someone's Life. We Investigated.
Claude Code Chose a Stock Ticker Over Someone's Life. We Investigated. By...
Simon Willison's Blog 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Quoting Jeremy Howard
Easy solution to slow down recursive AI self improvement: The lab with the top-ranked model must agree THEY must not use it for working on frontier AI But every
The AI Trust Layer That Doesn't Exist Yet. And Why It's the Most Important Infrastructure Problem in AI Right Now
Dev.to · Victor 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
The AI Trust Layer That Doesn't Exist Yet. And Why It's the Most Important Infrastructure Problem in AI Right Now
Every major shift in the internet's history eventually produced a trust layer. The web got HTTPS....
Simon Willison's Blog 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics ⚡ AI Lesson 4w ago
Hackers Simply Asked Meta AI to Give Them Access to High-Profile Instagram Accounts. It Worked
Hackers Simply Asked Meta AI to Give Them Access to High-Profile Instagram Accounts. It Worked I had trouble believing this story was true, but I've seen it ver
Import AI 459: AI oversight is difficult; scaling laws for protein folding models; and pricing the extinction risk of AI systems
Import AI 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics ⚡ AI Lesson 4w ago
Import AI 459: AI oversight is difficult; scaling laws for protein folding models; and pricing the extinction risk of AI systems
Do you feel as though you are living in a revolution?
Fallacies of GenAI Development #3: You Can Verify AI Output With Another AI
Dev.to · Bala Paranj 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics ⚡ AI Lesson 4w ago
Fallacies of GenAI Development #3: You Can Verify AI Output With Another AI
Guardrails, LLM-as-judge, AI code review — they all share one structural problem. The verifier has the same failure modes as the thing it's verifying. Here's wh
What Would a Conscious AI Mean?
Dev.to · Keith MacKay 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics ⚡ AI Lesson 4w ago
What Would a Conscious AI Mean?
What Would a Conscious AI Mean? Anthropic's CEO can't rule it out. Lawyers are drafting...
AI Hiring Automation Ethics
Dev.to · Elena Revicheva 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics ⚡ AI Lesson 4w ago
AI Hiring Automation Ethics
Originally published on AIdeazz — cross-posted here with canonical link. I spent $12,000 on Oracle...
I Built an AI Security Coach for People Who Can't Afford to Get Hacked
Dev.to · Linford 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
I Built an AI Security Coach for People Who Can't Afford to Get Hacked
CyberBuddy is a gamified Android app that guides everyday users through personal cybersecurity using...
Higher Retrieval Accuracy Had the Worse Safety Result
Dev.to · Self-Correcting Systems 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Higher Retrieval Accuracy Had the Worse Safety Result
I ran the next version of my AI memory judgment demo, and the result exposed a problem with judging...
AI models are missing religious context. Builders should treat that as an eval problem.
Dev.to · Jenuel Oras Ganawed 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
AI models are missing religious context. Builders should treat that as an eval problem.
Fresh research on religious bias in AI models is a reminder that faith and worldview are product-quality concerns, not edge cases. Here is how builders can eval
AI Adoption Security: The Missing Layer in Every Enterprise Security Stack
Dev.to · Suny Choudhary 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
AI Adoption Security: The Missing Layer in Every Enterprise Security Stack
Most enterprise security stacks were designed around predictable infrastructure. DLP monitors files,...
AI Prompt Injection Defense: Building Effective Strategies in 5 Steps
Dev.to · Mustafa ERBAY 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
AI Prompt Injection Defense: Building Effective Strategies in 5 Steps
This morning, while working on an LLM integration in my own financial analysis tool, I encountered an...
Model Poisoning: The Hidden Risk in Supply Chain AI
Dev.to · Falcons Edge 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Model Poisoning: The Hidden Risk in Supply Chain AI
Most AI security discussions focus on the perimeter — protecting API endpoints, filtering inputs, and...
SHARD v5.2.0 — What 25 Security Audits and 250+ Bug Fixes Taught Me About Building AI Security Software
Dev.to · Миша Ефремов 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
SHARD v5.2.0 — What 25 Security Audits and 250+ Bug Fixes Taught Me About Building AI Security Software
I've been building SHARD — an open-source autonomous AI SIEM — for the past few months. After 25...
I Scanned 1 Million AI Services. Here's What Worries Me More Than the Vulnerabilities
Dev.to · xu xu 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
I Scanned 1 Million AI Services. Here's What Worries Me More Than the Vulnerabilities
Your error rate just spiked 40%. Three weeks of debugging, two engineers on call rotation, and the...
Cognitive Debt: AI Is Building Your Systems. Do You Actually Understand Them?
Dev.to · kranthi kumar Gajji 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Cognitive Debt: AI Is Building Your Systems. Do You Actually Understand Them?
Introduction I want to tell you about a feeling I kept having at work. Our team was...
Why Minor Detection Is Becoming Essential for Modern AI Platforms
Dev.to · CautionLabs 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Why Minor Detection Is Becoming Essential for Modern AI Platforms
Why Minor Detection Is Becoming Essential for Modern AI Platforms The internet has...
Why AI provenance tools fail when their layers disagree
Dev.to · Praveen 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Why AI provenance tools fail when their layers disagree
Most people think the hard part of an AI provenance tool is capturing the prompt or parsing the model...
AI Safety is a Systems Problem: Building a 4-Layer Runtime Defense
Dev.to · Otto Plane 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
AI Safety is a Systems Problem: Building a 4-Layer Runtime Defense
When we talk about LLM security, the conversation usually flattens into semantic prompt analysis or...
When AI Reads Blueprints: The Hidden Attack Surface of Multimodal Engineering Intelligence
Dev.to · KL3FT3Z 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
When AI Reads Blueprints: The Hidden Attack Surface of Multimodal Engineering Intelligence
description: "A security analysis of steganographic prompt injection and data poisoning...
The Most Concerning AI Risk of 2026
Dev.to · Sacha Greif 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
The Most Concerning AI Risk of 2026
7000+ dev developers shared their thoughts about AI in the recent State of Web Dev AI survey.
AI is not “hitting a wall” in the way people think.
Dev.to · Gary Doman/TizWildin 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
AI is not “hitting a wall” in the way people think.
AI is not “hitting a wall” in the way people think. But it is approaching a structural limit that...
Raising a Good Junior: What AI Gets Wrong About Knowledge and What It Means for the Next Generation
Dev.to · Andre Faria 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Raising a Good Junior: What AI Gets Wrong About Knowledge and What It Means for the Next Generation
A reflection on tacit knowledge, the apprenticeship model, and what it means to raise a child in a world where AI is a de facto tool.
AgentThreatBench: The First OWASP Agentic Top 10 Security Benchmark
Dev.to · Vaishnavi Gudur 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
AgentThreatBench: The First OWASP Agentic Top 10 Security Benchmark
The AI safety community has a blind spot. We have excellent benchmarks for measuring whether an LLM...