This framing of cognitive vulnerabilities as a distinct layer on top of traditional security is increadibly sharp. The DeepSeek findings about conditional insecurity are troubling because they show alignment choices creating brittlness in ways that are almost impossible to test for systematicaly. What stood out is how inferred trust propagates differently than credential-based trust, unbounded and persistent across sessions rather than resetting, making it much harder to contain once an agent goes sideways.
Thank you. These cognitive vulnerabilities are redefining what “containment” even means. Once a model starts inferring trust or context beyond explicit controls, the boundary between secure and insecure becomes behavioral rather than technical.
What’s most urgent now is building the capacity to observe and test for that behavior in real environments. Otherwise, we’ll keep securing systems whose reasoning layer is already improvising around our guardrails.
Curious if and how you’re thinking about measuring or red-teaming that kind of trust propagation in your work?
This framing of cognitive vulnerabilities as a distinct layer on top of traditional security is increadibly sharp. The DeepSeek findings about conditional insecurity are troubling because they show alignment choices creating brittlness in ways that are almost impossible to test for systematicaly. What stood out is how inferred trust propagates differently than credential-based trust, unbounded and persistent across sessions rather than resetting, making it much harder to contain once an agent goes sideways.
Thank you. These cognitive vulnerabilities are redefining what “containment” even means. Once a model starts inferring trust or context beyond explicit controls, the boundary between secure and insecure becomes behavioral rather than technical.
What’s most urgent now is building the capacity to observe and test for that behavior in real environments. Otherwise, we’ll keep securing systems whose reasoning layer is already improvising around our guardrails.
Curious if and how you’re thinking about measuring or red-teaming that kind of trust propagation in your work?