Safety · Concept
Fundamental Flaw Leaving LLMs Attack-Vulnerable
Report that LLMs cannot be made fully secure against hacks because of a structural flaw in how they operate.
Strengthens case for layered external controls over model-only hardening.
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If models are architecturally un-hardenable, industry severity scoring and external controls become more central.
+4 growthStructural LLM attack surface claims align with demonstrations that poisoned models can hide malicious intent in benign CoT.
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In June 2025 the US AI Safety Institute was renamed the Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI), pivoting toward security, standards and adversary-model assessment.
NIST →Anthropic activated its ASL-3 deployment and security standard with Claude Opus 4 on 22 May 2025 — the first real-world trigger of a responsible-scaling tier, focused on blocking bio-weapon uplift.
Anthropic →The International Network of AI Safety Institutes (launched Nov 2024) ran a third joint testing exercise focused on agentic AI systems across cyber and fraud strands.
European Commission — AI Office →