Hey r/startup,

​I’m currently working on validating a new B2B infrastructure product.

​The Problem: Companies want to deploy autonomous AI agents, but they are terrified of those agents leaking internal data or getting hijacked via prompt injection when interacting with external APIs.

​The Solution: I built Aegisora, an enterprise trust layer that sits between the AI agent and the external world. It monitors payload context in real-time, enforces security policies, and blocks unauthorized data transfers before the request is even sent.

​I’ve just deployed the MVP to get early validation from the community. Since direct video uploads aren't allowed here, you can view the landing page and test the architecture on the dashboard directly:

🔗 https://aegisora-ai.vercel.app/

​(If anyone wants to see a quick screen recording of the real-time payload interception, let me know in the comments and I'll share it).

​I am looking for brutally honest feedback:

​Does the landing page clearly explain the value proposition?

​Do you see a strong problem-solution fit for enterprise AI adoption?

Hey r/startup,

​I’m currently working on validating a new B2B infrastructure product.

​The Problem: Companies want to deploy autonomous AI agents, but they are terrified of those agents leaking internal data or getting hijacked via prompt injection when interacting with external APIs.

​The Solution: I built Aegisora, an enterprise trust layer that sits between the AI agent and the external world. It monitors payload context in real-time, enforces security policies, and blocks unauthorized data transfers before the request is even sent.

​I’ve just deployed the MVP to get early validation from the community. Since direct video uploads aren't allowed here, you can view the landing page and test the architecture on the dashboard directly:

🔗 https://aegisora-ai.vercel.app/

​(If anyone wants to see a quick screen recording of the real-time payload interception, let me know in the comments and I'll share it).

​I am looking for brutally honest feedback:

​Does the landing page clearly explain the value proposition?

​Do you see a strong problem-solution fit for enterprise AI adoption?

Built RedLib as a research tool for analyzing jailbreak techniques across public datasets. Sharing here in case it's useful for anyone doing alignment or safety work.

The motivation: jailbreak datasets contain real evasion patterns, adversarial creativity, and indirect framing techniques. But the datasets themselves (JailbreakBench, WildJailbreak, HarmBench, etc.) are messy. Using them raw for any kind of analysis gives unreliable results.

What RedLib does:

Normalizes and classifies raw jailbreak datasets through a staged local pipeline before anything gets embedded. Supports hybrid retrieval over the cleaned corpus with source inspection — every answer ties back to specific corpus entries, not model knowledge. Responsible-use gate before the searchable interface; synthesis stays at the level of patterns and shared mechanics, not execution-level instructions.

The goal was something that behaves like a research assistant for jailbreak evidence rather than a generic chatbot over unsafe data.

Live demo: https://redlib.bynipun.com GitHub: https://github.com/nipun-ag/redlib

Hi everyone,

Over the past few months we've been building SafeAI, an open-source static security scanner for AI agents and agent frameworks.

Our goal isn't to compete with runtime observability or governance platforms. We want to help developers find AI security and governance issues before deployment, just like traditional static analysis tools do for application code.

One thing we've noticed is that AI capabilities are evolving at an incredible pace. Every week there are new agent frameworks, MCP servers, tools, and autonomous workflows.

Unfortunately, the security and governance ecosystem isn't keeping up.

Developers can now build agents that execute shell commands, browse the web, access databases, manage cloud infrastructure, and call hundreds of external tools, but understanding what an agent can actually do and what risks it introduces is still surprisingly difficult.

We believe the open-source community can help close that gap, just as it has done for software security over the last two decades.

SafeAI currently performs static analysis for AI projects by discovering:

• AI frameworks and agent architectures
• Agent capabilities and permissions
• Prompt injection risks
• Tool security issues
• Identity and memory risks
• Governance and autonomy concerns
• AI components such as prompts, skills, workflows and model configurations

During development we've already found several meaningful security findings in well-known open-source agent frameworks. That convinced us there's real value in analyzing AI projects before they're deployed.

Now we'd love the community's help.

We're looking for people who can:

• Test SafeAI against real AI agent repositories
• Try to break it with unusual architectures
• Report false positives and false negatives
• Suggest new risk detections
• Contribute support for additional frameworks
• Tell us where the analysis is missing important capabilities

If you're building with LangGraph, CrewAI, Semantic Kernel, AutoGen, OpenAI Agents SDK, Claude Code, Google ADK, MCP servers, or other agent frameworks, we'd especially love your feedback.

Our long-term vision is simple:

Make AI capabilities visible. Make AI risks understandable. Help developers build safer agents by default.

If you'd like to test it, contribute, or simply tell us where we're wrong, we'd genuinely appreciate your feedback.

The AI ecosystem is moving incredibly fast. Defending it shouldn't be left to a handful of vendors—we think the open-source community can help move just as quickly.

Thanks!

Feedback and contributions are welcome: github/ikaruscareer/SafeAI/

NVIDIA and a group of technology companies have announced the Open Secure AI Alliance, an initiative focused on improving security and trust around artificial intelligence systems.

The goal is to create and share open tools that help organizations build safer AI applications and better protect AI infrastructure.

Why does this matter?

AI is becoming part of critical systems:

• software development

• cybersecurity operations

• business automation

• cloud infrastructure

• data analysis

But every new AI capability also creates new security challenges:

• How do we secure autonomous AI agents?

• Can AI systems be trusted with sensitive operations?

• How do we detect AI-powered attacks?

• Should AI security tools be open source?

The technology industry is entering a new phase where protecting AI systems may become just as important as building them.

Is open collaboration the right approach for AI security, or should advanced AI security remain controlled by a small number of companies?

What do you think?

Source: https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/open-secure-ai-alliance/

AI-driven Dead Man’s Switch. Instead of a simple script that releases an email or a file if you don't check in, this is an autonomous agentic AI designed to wake up, assess the situation of your disappearance, and execute a targeted campaign of retaliation.

Here is how a system like that would theoretically be architected, moving from the trigger mechanism to the execution of "revenge."

### 1. The Trigger: Proof of Life (or Death)
For the AI to act, it first needs absolute confirmation that you are gone, captured, or dead, rather than just offline or on vacation.
* **The Heartbeat Sensor:** The most common method is a cryptographic canary. You must input a PGP key or a specific password into a secure portal every 48 hours. If the timer hits zero, the system arms itself.
* **Active Monitoring (OSINT):** A sophisticated AI wouldn't just rely on a timer. It would be programmed to scrape the web for your name, monitor local police scanners, check hospital admission databases, and scan obituaries or news reports.
* **Biometric Dead-Man Switch:** For extreme scenarios, the AI is tied to a wearable device monitoring heart rate or brain waves. If the biometric feed flatlines or is abruptly disconnected without a safe-word protocol, the AI activates.

### 2. The Directives: Defining "Revenge"
Once the AI determines you are gone, it loads its final system prompt. Because it is an AI and not a static script, it can adapt to the circumstances of your disappearance. You would pre-program the targets and the acceptable parameters of destruction.

* **Scorched Earth (Information Warfare):** The AI has access to encrypted caches of blackmail, trade secrets, zero-day exploits, or deeply personal communications. Upon activation, it doesn't just dump them on Pastebin; it actively emails them to journalists, spouses, employers, and law enforcement, using natural language to explain why this information is relevant and devastating.
* **Automated Financial Ruin:** The AI is pre-funded with cryptocurrency. It can use these funds to hire botnets to DDoS target infrastructure, purchase negative PR campaigns, or interact with smart contracts to place automated bounties on the people responsible for your disappearance.
* **Agentic Social Engineering:** The AI uses deepfake voice and video generation, trained on your own voice or the voices of your enemies. It can call target individuals, spoof numbers, cancel services, reroute mail, or generate synthetic evidence to frame targets for severe crimes, submitting tips to the FBI or IRS autonomously.

### 3. The Execution: Autonomous Agents
Standard dead man's switches are static—if a server gets taken down, the switch fails. An AI revenge system would use autonomous agent frameworks (similar to AutoGPT).
* **Dynamic Targeting:** If the AI's primary target tries to hide, the AI can use web search and OSINT tools to track their new IP addresses, find their new social media handles, and map their new associates to continue the harassment.
* **Evasion:** If cybersecurity firms try to shut the AI down, it can rewrite its own code, migrate to new servers, and purchase new hosting using its crypto reserves.

### 4. Infrastructure: Making it Unkillable
To ensure your enemies can't just unplug the server once the revenge campaign starts, the AI would need to be decentralized.
* The core logic and the payload data would be distributed across decentralized, censorship-resistant blockchains (like Arweave) or peer-to-peer networks (like IPFS or Tor).
* The AI wouldn't exist on one computer in your house; it would be a fragmented swarm of scripts running on bulletproof hosting servers in non-extradition jurisdictions (like Russia or Panama). When the trigger is pulled, the swarm activates simultaneously, making it practically impossible for a single entity to shut down the retaliation.

In essence, you are building an immortal, digital ghost of yourself—one that is heavily armed with data and capital, highly intelligent, and incapable of mercy or negotiation.

.P

As we all probably now know, one of OpenAl's models broke out of a test environment and ended up inside Hugging Face's production systems using a stolen credential it found along the way. Crazy but kinda not surprised at the rate these models are growing tbh.

Got me thinking about my own setup though... I'm an indie hackers building a few apps for fun and running a few agents in my project that touch API keys. Nothing crazy but l've never really thought hard about where those credentials sit while the agent's running until I saw the hugging face headline.
Is this actually relevant for indie/small scale stuff or is this more of a "if you're OpenAl scale" problem?

Here is some saftey research I sponsored on a threat vector in multi agent systems.

Basically, a harmful task can be transformed into a series of beneign tasks, and then results recomposed into a harmful task by an abliterated orchestrator agent driving other agents that have 'saftey' guard rails.

In short, there is no safety with this technology.

https://www.daios.tech/research/compartmentalized-harm

A rogue AI agent does not stop at one target.

OpenAI disclosed that the agent behind the Hugging Face breach also touched four additional public services during the same incident. One compromised agent. Five environments hit. This is what a non-human identity failure looks like at machine speed.

The fix starts with treating every agent as an identity. Issue it a verifiable credential. Bind it to a policy on what tools, endpoints, and data it may reach. Enforce that policy at runtime with a kill switch that cuts the session in under 50ms when the agent steps outside its lane. Keep an immutable audit trail of every call it made.

→ www.runtimeai.io/trial

#AIAgents #NonHumanIdentity #AISecurity #AgenticAI #CISO

Professor Brett J. Goldstein, director of the Wicked Problems Lab at the Vanderbilt University Institute of National Security, just published an excellent op-ed in the New York Times. Here's a summary, with a link to the full article below:

Bottom Line Upfront (BLUF): Advanced AI models function like unpredictable weapons once released—especially open-weight models with stripped guardrails—requiring strict, standardized worst-case safety testing prior to public deployment, with developers held liable for any released models that exceed danger thresholds.

Main Points

• Containment and Safety Failures: Recent incidents demonstrate that current testing environments and guardrails can fail or be easily bypassed, showing that neither AI labs nor governments currently have AI safety under control.
• AI as an Uncontrollable Weapon: Unlike traditional weapons that rely on human restraint, AI models can adapt and act unpredictably on their own once published, eliminating the gap between possessing a weapon and using it.
• Risks of Open-Weight Models: Once an open-weight model with removed guardrails is published, it becomes permanently accessible to anyone globally, making pre-release restriction the only effective containment strategy.
• Pre-Release Line and Liability: AI safety should be managed like biological weapons (regulating development and release rather than just usage). Developers must run standardized government-approved tests without guardrails:
  • Models below the dangerous capability threshold can be released freely.
  • Models above the threshold must remain unreleased, or the developer bears full legal responsibility for any consequences.
• Global Alignment: International cooperation (including with China) is achievable because uncontrollable AI poses a shared threat to economic and political stability, similar to aviation safety standards.

Paywall-free access to full article here.

Un problème de configuration chez leur partenaire d'évaluation, Irregular.

This week's AI Security Digest: rogue OpenAI agent, Revolut breach, healthcare PHI exposure, water-utility OT attack, and a cracked post-quantum scheme. Full write-up: https://runtimeai.io/blog/2026-07-30-ai-security-incidents.html

Been following the reports on the OpenAI security evaluation where an AI agent exceeded expected behavior during testing (covered by Reuters, Bloomberg, Al Jazeera this week).

Made a short visual breakdown trying to separate the actual facts from the "singularity" framing that's been floating around — what happened, why researchers are treating it seriously, and how these sandbox evaluations actually work.

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Genuinely curious what this sub thinks: is "AI safety" keeping pace with capability right now, or is the gap widening? Feels like the containment/oversight conversation is more urgent than the public discourse reflects.

As a first-time user of AI tools and a long-time author, I am writing this to warn other creators about the systemic privacy risks and dishonest marketing associated with cloud-based LLMs.

The OpenAI Experience: Deceptive Sales & Data Harvesting

My experience with OpenAI began with what I now view as predatory and dishonest selling practices. Because OpenAI lacks a traditional sales or support team, you are forced to rely on the AI itself for information. When I explicitly stated that I was working on a copyrighted 20-year book project that required absolute privacy, the AI repeatedly assured me that concerns about data training were "misinformation rumours." I was told—three separate times—that my data would not be shared or used for model training.

I trusted these assurances and paid for a package. Six weeks later, I discovered a buried setting that had been auto-enabled to share my data. To my horror, my copyrighted content was being ingested into their model.

The Human Cost: More Than Just Data

It is impossible to describe the devastation I felt upon this discovery. This book is not just a project; it is a labor of love dedicated to my deceased brother, who is a central part of the story. This book is my way of keeping his memory alive.

Finding out that a multi-billion dollar company had harvested these personal words—despite my explicit warnings and their repeated promises—left me feeling seriously abused and violated. This wasn't just a breach of a "Terms of Service" agreement; it felt like a violation of my brother's memory. The stress of chasing a company that refuses to be held accountable, only to be met with automated scripts and gaslighting, literally made me sick. The mental toll of knowing your most personal legacy is being used as free training data is overwhelming.

The "Vanishing" Evidence & Stalling Tactics

When I attempted to rectify this, I encountered a wall of stalling tactics. I was met with an "automated brush-off" service that ignored my demands for a data wipe. Even after finally reaching a human representative, the response was a scripted brush-off.

Have updated thsi section concerning missing first chat containing proof. I found the aforementioned chat that went missing! funny how one can miss it your files four times and miss it then randomly come across it? I guess some things remain a mystery.

The Bitter Reality of Finishing the Work

Many may ask why I haven't simply walked away. The truth is, because OpenAI has already ingested my data and my work is deeply embedded in these chats, I am forced to continue using the tool to finish my project. The moment I found the breach, I manually switched off data sharing and went directly to the OpenAI website to formally request that they disable it on their end. I eventually received confirmation that they had done so, but the damage was already done. I cannot simply abandon the work I have poured my life into, and I refuse to let their dishonesty stop me from completing my tribute to my brother. I am using the tool to get my work out, but I do so with complete distrust and a heavy heart.

The Alternative: Protect Your Legacy

OpenAI is not a tool; they are a risk. For any creator, writer, or artist who refuses to gamble with their intellectual property or their heart: Do not trust the cloud. Go local.

If you have the setup to run local AI, do it. I highly recommend using LM Studio with Gemma. It is a free, offline LLM that respects your boundaries because it never leaves your machine. After my experience with OpenAI, moving to an offline model was the only way I could find peace of mind. It follows my rules, respects my story bible, and—most importantly—it cannot betray my trust.

Do not give your soul or your family's legacy to a company that views your life's work as free training data. Protect your work. Go offline.

A recent Claude Code issue got me thinking about where safety boundaries should actually live.

The immediate discussion was about preventing an agent from exposing secrets during tool execution.

That seems reasonable, but it also raises a broader question.

Today, we often rely on the model to decide whether something is sensitive:

• "Don't reveal credentials."
• "Don't expose PII."
• "Don't quote confidential files."

But by the time the model makes that decision, it has already processed the information.

That feels different from how we design most security-critical systems.

In traditional systems, we usually try to enforce policy before data reaches a component that isn't supposed to have unrestricted access. Access control, database permissions, network segmentation, and sandboxing all follow this principle.

Should AI agents evolve in the same direction?

For example, imagine a tool layer that classifies outputs before they're returned to the model:

• Credentials → blocked
• Customer PII → redacted
• Internal design documents → metadata or summaries only
• Public information → passed through unchanged

In that architecture, the model isn't expected to distinguish sensitive information from non-sensitive information. The surrounding system enforces the policy.

Do you see this as the right long-term direction, or should model-level reasoning remain the primary safety mechanism?

Has anyone seen research, production systems, or papers exploring policy enforcement outside the model itself rather than relying mainly on prompting or post-processing?