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“Model providers have great reason to establish guardrails, safeguards, because these are super capable systems. The unfortunate side effect of that is, as a defender, I may not be able to respond effectively.” — Max Pollard, a16z Podcast

Max Pollard of Kotool explains a strange twist from the OpenAI/Hugging Face hacking incident: the same safety guardrails that stop attackers from misusing AI models also stop security defenders, who need to ask the model the same kinds of questions an attacker would.

a16z Podcast · 2026-08-18 Context → Listen →

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