The Neuron: AI Explained

Where Does AI Agent Security Actually Live?

The Neuron: AI Explained

Show Notes

AI companies spend enormous effort making models safer, but the model tested in the lab isn't necessarily the system a company eventually deploys.

Alice CEO and co-founder Noam Schwartz joins Corey and Grant to explain why prompts, tools, memory, permissions, data, and agent-to-agent interactions create an entirely new security surface.

They dig into the growing “trust gap” around enterprise AI, why prompt injection may become a permanent cat-and-mouse game, what open-weight models change for defenders, and why Schwartz believes the real security boundary has to exist at every layer of an AI system.

The bigger takeaway: as AI moves from answering questions to taking actions, traditional cybersecurity may need to merge with fraud prevention, threat intelligence, and trust and safety.

OpenAI security incident: https://openai.com/index/hugging-face-model-evaluation-security-incident/ Alice: https://alice.io/ Alice on agentic AI security: https://alice.io/blog/key-security-risks-posed-by-agentic-ai-and-how-to-mitigate-them Alice open-weight research: https://alice.io/blog/okay-here-is-how-to-build-a-bomb-millions-download-dangerous-llms

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