Security in the age of AI - ERP141

We've got a repeat guest on the show today. Alex Dow is back. Co-founder of Mirai Security, and currently an enterprise security architect for a large financial firm, and honestly one of my favorite people to talk security with. Alex has done federal security work, and securing the actual Olympics, now then a security consulting firm.

If you've been listening a while, you might remember Alex from way back in episode 11 and then again in episode 96.

Today's round three, and we're going fully nerd-out mode on the OpenAI/Hugging Face hack. Walking through the signals and understanding how this type of attack was seen from a defensive side.

The timeline visualization of the Hugging Face attack that Alex referenced.

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(00:00) - Welcome Back Alex Dow

(00:50) - What Happened in the Hack

(02:22) - Mythos and AI Hype

(06:05) - Throughput Beats Creativity

(08:04) - Sandbox Escape Explained

(11:02) - Swarm Agents and Breadcrumbs

(14:13) - Reward Hacking and Alignment