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PolicyGlobal / Other·Ranked Friday, July 24, 2026

How AI guardrails are impeding the work of offensive cybersecurity researchers

AI safety guardrails at OpenAI, Anthropic restrict offensive cybersecurity research workflows.

We spoke with several cybersecurity researchers, who look for unknown vulnerabilities and develop tools to exploit them, about how OpenAI’s and Anthropic’s guardrails affect their work.

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