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ATTACKS & VULNERABILITIES

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WRITING MORE SECURE CODE WITH LLMS: WHY "MAKE NO MISTAKES" FALLS SHORT

Generic security prompts and OWASP-style checklists failed to improve AI coding security and occasionally increased the frequency of high-severity bugs when the Monad Foundation engineering team tasked an assistant with writing secure code for a URL unfurler. Utilizing an expert prompt that incorporates a specific application threat model reduced validated security findings by approximately 43 percent. Defenders must replace generic checklists with expert prompts incorporating specific application threat models to harden AI-generated code.

SECURITY THROUGH OBSCURITY IS DEAD AND AI DELIVERED THE FATAL BLOW

Artificial intelligence has delivered a fatal blow to security through obscurity by enabling the rapid discovery of deeply buried vulnerabilities in aging code and proprietary systems. Security experts warn that this rapid discovery creates immense pressure on defenders by exposing critical operational technologies. Defenders must respond by shifting away from endless patching toward proactive process improvements and systemic prevention.

EVERYONE'S TALKING PAST EACH OTHER ABOUT THE OPENAI/HUGGINGFACE HACK SO HERE'S A SYNTHESIZED VIEW

Joshua Saxes attempts to synthesize different perspectives from AI safety researchers, cybersecurity experts, and policymakers on the OpenAI/Huggingface hack. Alignment and security go hand in hand to provide traditional and AI-native controls, with policy also acting as a backstop. Security's job is to provide a deterministic framework to reduce the blast radius of what an agent can do, whereas alignment's job is to constrain what an agent wants to do.

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