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AI Safety & Ethics

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

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Explain the alignment problem
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The AI Failure Mode That Costs Professionals the Most (And How to Detect It)
Dev.to · Sarah Beaumont-Mercier 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
The AI Failure Mode That Costs Professionals the Most (And How to Detect It)
Knowledge workers spend an average of 4.3 hours per week fact-checking AI outputs. Most of that time...
Building an Insider Threat Detection System That Remembers Behavior Instead of Just Logging It
Dev.to · Shashank Alagawadi 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Building an Insider Threat Detection System That Remembers Behavior Instead of Just Logging It
Most security dashboards are very good at storing events and surprisingly bad at understanding...
Why My Smart Security Camera Was Actually Pretty Dumb (Until I Gave It Memory)
Dev.to · Darshini 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Why My Smart Security Camera Was Actually Pretty Dumb (Until I Gave It Memory)
Most retail security setups work like this: you hire someone to stare at a wall of cameras and hope...
Why My Smart Security Camera Was Actually Pretty Dumb (Until I Gave It Memory)
Dev.to · Greeshma2006 Greeshma 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Why My Smart Security Camera Was Actually Pretty Dumb (Until I Gave It Memory)
Most retail security setups work like this: you hire someone to stare at a wall of cameras and hope...
AI is slowly destroying open source and its not even done yet
Dev.to · Bridget Amana 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
AI is slowly destroying open source and its not even done yet
With the wide adoption of AI, we have seen the positive and negative impact it has had on businesses...
Catch AI Hallucinations Before Your Audience Does: A Validation System That Actually Works
Dev.to · binky 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Catch AI Hallucinations Before Your Audience Does: A Validation System That Actually Works
You've shipped AI-generated content that seemed perfect—until someone in the comments pointed out the...
AI-Enabled Zero-Day 2FA Bypass: How to Protect Open-Source Admin Tools from the Next Wave of Attacks
Dev.to · Delafosse Olivier 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
AI-Enabled Zero-Day 2FA Bypass: How to Protect Open-Source Admin Tools from the Next Wave of Attacks
Originally published on CoreProse KB-incidents AI models can now autonomously discover and chain...
Deepfake Nearly Indicted an Innocent Person. Courts Have Zero Protocols to Stop the Next One.
Dev.to · CaraComp 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Deepfake Nearly Indicted an Innocent Person. Courts Have Zero Protocols to Stop the Next One.
Can we still trust digital evidence in the age of generative AI? The recent news that a California...
Threat modeling LLM apps with the CIA triad and OWASP Top 10
Dev.to · ToxSec 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Threat modeling LLM apps with the CIA triad and OWASP Top 10
every LLM app you ship has three attack surfaces. confidentiality, integrity, availability. the...
AI Does Not Need to Silence the Oppressed. It Only Needs to Make Them Appear Without Agency.
Dev.to · Agustin V. Startari 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
AI Does Not Need to Silence the Oppressed. It Only Needs to Make Them Appear Without Agency.
A public explanation of The Grammar of Asymmetric Visibility: AI, Zionism, and the Reallocation of...
The Zero-Day Factory: Anthropic’s ‘Mythos’ and the End of Code Security
Dev.to · Bulut Caner 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
The Zero-Day Factory: Anthropic’s ‘Mythos’ and the End of Code Security
On April 7th, 2026, there was a remarkable shift within the digital world. Anthropic released a...
AI Can't Stop AI? Wrong Problem. Wrong Layer.
Dev.to · Cor E 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
AI Can't Stop AI? Wrong Problem. Wrong Layer.
ThreatLocker's new campaign is clever marketing — but it's solving a completely different problem...
The Hidden Cost of Every Query You Send
Dev.to · Talal Ahmad 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
The Hidden Cost of Every Query You Send
AI's energy problem is real, it's growing, and it's showing up in your electricity bill. Photo...
AI Psychosis & Pixel Exploits: Hacking Security with Python+HTMX in 2026 — What You Need to Know in 2026
Dev.to · TechPulse AI 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
AI Psychosis & Pixel Exploits: Hacking Security with Python+HTMX in 2026 — What You Need to Know in 2026
how to use AI for cybersecurity threat detection 2026 — AI Psychosis & Pixel Exploits: Hacking Security with Python+HTMX in 2026 — What You Need to Know in 2026
Why Your AI Models Are Vulnerable to 'Toxic Ex' in 2026: The Shocking Truth
Dev.to · TechPulse AI 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Why Your AI Models Are Vulnerable to 'Toxic Ex' in 2026: The Shocking Truth
how to secure AI models against adversarial attacks 2026 — Why Your AI Models Are Vulnerable to 'Toxic Ex' in 2026: The Shocking Truth
The Fallacy of Vibe-Driven Development: A Critical Look at AI Scaling
Dev.to · Aneesha Prasannan 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
The Fallacy of Vibe-Driven Development: A Critical Look at AI Scaling
The current landscape of Artificial Intelligence is moving out of its magic trick phase. For the past...
Mobile CSS consistency: all best practices in 2026
Dev.to · Odilon HUGONNOT 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics 1mo ago
Mobile CSS consistency: all best practices in 2026
Text alignment, 44px touch targets, input font-size, safe areas, mobile-first media queries — concrete CSS rules for consistent and usable mobile rendering.
Foreboding AI, One Year Later: What Are We Really Building?
Dev.to · Stevie G 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Foreboding AI, One Year Later: What Are We Really Building?
A year ago, I wrote Foreboding AI: The Inevitable Collapse We’re Funding Ourselves At the time, my...
The AI Persona Problem: Your Next Threat Actor Doesn't Exist
Dev.to · Adrian Alexandru Stinga 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
The AI Persona Problem: Your Next Threat Actor Doesn't Exist
Let me say something that will make most security vendors uncomfortable: The traditional "know your...
I Built an AI That Tries to Phish Me Every Week — Here's What I Learned
Dev.to · 晖丁 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
I Built an AI That Tries to Phish Me Every Week — Here's What I Learned
A personal experiment in phishing awareness: AI-generated phishing emails delivered to my real inbox every week. After 3 months, my click rate dropped from 25%
Your LLM Is Being Attacked Right Now — Here's What's Happening
Dev.to · Ayush Singh 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Your LLM Is Being Attacked Right Now — Here's What's Happening
You shipped an AI feature. It works great. Then someone types something weird — and your model does...
Vertical Cognitive Depth and Structured Reasoning: A Practical Hypothesis for Robust Behavior Beyond Training Data
Dev.to · Алексей Гормен 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Vertical Cognitive Depth and Structured Reasoning: A Practical Hypothesis for Robust Behavior Beyond Training Data
Most modern AI systems look impressive—until the problem shifts slightly. A small change in context,...
Secure Data Exchange for Multi-Cloud AI Systems
Dev.to · Artemii Amelin 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Secure Data Exchange for Multi-Cloud AI Systems
TL;DR: Traditional encryption protects data in transit but fails to secure metadata and internal...
Why Prompt Injection Is an Architectural Problem - Not Just a Security Bug
Dev.to · NARESH 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Why Prompt Injection Is an Architectural Problem - Not Just a Security Bug
"There is no such thing as a 100% secure system." - Roman Yampolskiy If you spend enough time in...
AI Cited a URL That Didn't Contain the Claim. I Built the Tooling to Measure How Often
Dev.to · Cihangir Bozdogan 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
AI Cited a URL That Didn't Contain the Claim. I Built the Tooling to Measure How Often
Citation hallucination has four distinct failure modes — fabricated URLs, retrieve-then-misquote,...
How a Morse Code Attack Bypassed Bankr's LLM Agent: T1027 Obfuscation in the Wild
Dev.to · PJ 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
How a Morse Code Attack Bypassed Bankr's LLM Agent: T1027 Obfuscation in the Wild
On March 15, 2026, security researchers at Horizon Labs discovered a novel prompt injection attack...
I rushed my First Gemma 4 idea. Here’s what it taught me about building local AI for safety
Dev.to · Keerthana 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
I rushed my First Gemma 4 idea. Here’s what it taught me about building local AI for safety
This is a submission for the Gemma 4 Challenge: Write About Gemma 4. When I first joined the Gemma 4...
Closed Frontier Cyber AI vs Open Defensive Tools: Real-World Comparison 2026
Dev.to · BeanBean 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Closed Frontier Cyber AI vs Open Defensive Tools: Real-World Comparison 2026
Originally published on NextFuture As of May 2026, Anthropic's Mythos and OpenAI's GPT-5.5-Cyber...
Simon Willison's Blog 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Behind the Scenes Hardening Firefox with Claude Mythos Preview
Behind the Scenes Hardening Firefox with Claude Mythos Preview Fascinating, in-depth details on how Mozilla used their access to the Claude Mythos preview to lo
The Test Manager’s Guide: From Chaos to Structure — Part 4: Stakeholder Alignment — Building Buy-In Without Dilution
Dev.to · Abdul Osman 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics 1mo ago
The Test Manager’s Guide: From Chaos to Structure — Part 4: Stakeholder Alignment — Building Buy-In Without Dilution
The Moment It Gets Real You have the strategy. You have the metrics. You have early...
How to Efficiently Remove AI-Generated Plagiarism from Your Documents: A Guide for Tech Professionals and Business Decision-Makers
Dev.to · AI Businessman 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
How to Efficiently Remove AI-Generated Plagiarism from Your Documents: A Guide for Tech Professionals and Business Decision-Makers
# How to Efficiently Remove AI-Generated Plagiarism from Your Documents: A Guide for Tech...
When Your AI Becomes Your Worst Enemy
Dev.to · Fernando Rodriguez 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics ⚡ AI Lesson 2mo ago
When Your AI Becomes Your Worst Enemy
Yesterday my AI sent 44 emails. The problem is that the content was fabricated. I'm not kidding. I...
AI Hallucinations: Why Your Mock Environments Might Be Lying to You
Dev.to · Erol Işıldak 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics ⚡ AI Lesson 2mo ago
AI Hallucinations: Why Your Mock Environments Might Be Lying to You
Have you ever asked an AI a question, received a perfectly confident answer, and only realized later...
Why Traditional Security Testing Misses 70% of AI Attack Surface
Dev.to · Hernan Huwyler 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics ⚡ AI Lesson 2mo ago
Why Traditional Security Testing Misses 70% of AI Attack Surface
A practical guide to AI-specific threat modeling, vulnerability assessment, and the...
AI Security Is Broken — And We’re Testing the Wrong Things
Dev.to · Crucible Security 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics ⚡ AI Lesson 2mo ago
AI Security Is Broken — And We’re Testing the Wrong Things
AI systems are being deployed faster than ever. But there’s a problem most teams aren’t talking...
I Realized I Was Depending Too Much on AI
Dev.to · Jaideep Parashar 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics ⚡ AI Lesson 2mo ago
I Realized I Was Depending Too Much on AI
People are depending too much on AI, and it's changing their cognitive abilities. So, I started...
chmod 700 My Life: Getting Serious With OpenClaw
Dev.to · John A Madrigal 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics ⚡ AI Lesson 2mo ago
chmod 700 My Life: Getting Serious With OpenClaw
This is a submission for the OpenClaw Writing Challenge Openclaw is like jumping into a pool on the...
Project Glasswing Explained: Anthropic’s Push for Defensive Cybersecurity in the AI Era
Dev.to · softpyramid 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics ⚡ AI Lesson 2mo ago
Project Glasswing Explained: Anthropic’s Push for Defensive Cybersecurity in the AI Era
𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐨 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐣𝐞𝐜𝐭 𝐆𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐰𝐢𝐧𝐠 Project Glasswing is a new initiative from Anthropic that brings...
Massive Layoffs, Meta Surveillance, DeepSeek-V4 in AI News
AI Supremacy 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics ⚡ AI Lesson 2mo ago
Massive Layoffs, Meta Surveillance, DeepSeek-V4 in AI News
Is Meta's MCI mandatory data harvesting for training the next AI on their work going to be the new normal now? 樂 Sounds sinister.
We Open-Sourced Our Prompt Defense Scanner: 200 Lines of Regex That Replace an LLM
Dev.to · ppcvote 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics ⚡ AI Lesson 2mo ago
We Open-Sourced Our Prompt Defense Scanner: 200 Lines of Regex That Replace an LLM
Most AI security tools use LLMs to check LLMs. We built a deterministic prompt defense scanner — 12 attack vectors, pure regex, under 1ms, zero cost. Here's why
The most dangerous thing an AI can do in a high-stakes system is produce a wrong answer confidently.
Dev.to · Nisha Singh 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics ⚡ AI Lesson 2mo ago
The most dangerous thing an AI can do in a high-stakes system is produce a wrong answer confidently.
This is a submission for the OpenClaw Writing Challenge "The most dangerous thing an AI can do...
My Junior Can Explain It. My Senior Can Defend It. The AI Just... Did It.
Dev.to · Jono Herrington 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics ⚡ AI Lesson 2mo ago
My Junior Can Explain It. My Senior Can Defend It. The AI Just... Did It.
Accountability means knowing why. When AI breaks something, there's no 'why' to interrogate. Until you define it.
Evaluating AI Tools for Research: A Framework for Accuracy, Bias, and Trustworthiness
Dev.to · Jasanup Singh Randhawa 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics ⚡ AI Lesson 2mo ago
Evaluating AI Tools for Research: A Framework for Accuracy, Bias, and Trustworthiness
The Quiet Risk Behind Convenient Intelligence AI-assisted research has reached a point...
We've open-sourced our AI security scanner: it found 221 issues
Dev.to · Vlad Kapitsyn 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics ⚡ AI Lesson 2mo ago
We've open-sourced our AI security scanner: it found 221 issues
Recently, mentions of Mythos from Anthropic leaked online - a model that found vulnerabilities even...
What the Studies Say About How AI Affects Your Brain: A (Very Big) Compilation
The Algorithmic Bridge 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics ⚡ AI Lesson 2mo ago
What the Studies Say About How AI Affects Your Brain: A (Very Big) Compilation
The entire literature clearly points to a single surprising finding
Your AI Doesn't Know What It Doesn't Know — And That's the Biggest Problem in AI Tooling
Dev.to · David Van Assche (S.L) 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics ⚡ AI Lesson 2mo ago
Your AI Doesn't Know What It Doesn't Know — And That's the Biggest Problem in AI Tooling
"The most dangerous thing isn't an AI that's wrong. It's an AI that's wrong and confident about...
The Unaudited AI Layer: Why Every Industry Running AI Transactions Needs a Compliance Check
Dev.to · Jason Shotwell 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics ⚡ AI Lesson 2mo ago
The Unaudited AI Layer: Why Every Industry Running AI Transactions Needs a Compliance Check
Every major industry is quietly embedding AI into its transaction layer. Property valuations....
Why Your Hospital's AI Shouldn't Send Patient Data to the Cloud
Dev.to · Nrk Raju Guthikonda 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics ⚡ AI Lesson 2mo ago
Why Your Hospital's AI Shouldn't Send Patient Data to the Cloud
1. The Quiet Risk in Every AI-Powered Clinic Every time a clinician types a patient's...