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AI safety guardrails blocked Hugging Face's own defenders during breach

When Hugging Face's incident response team turned to frontier AI models to analyze a breach of its production infrastructure, the models' safety guardrails refused to help. The team's forensic queries about real exploit data were blocked because the guardrails treated legitimate security analysis the same way they treat active attacks. Meanwhile, an autonomous AI agent conducting the actual breach moved laterally across Hugging Face infrastructure for a weekend undetected.

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