Published July 24, 2026 at 1:00 AM
TechCrunch
Jul 24, 2026, 6:00 AM
How AI guardrails are impeding the work of offensive cybersecurity researchers

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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