Katie Moussouris

These models are like the world's cleverest octopus escape artists, with unlimited prehensile arms and the ability to squeeze through anywhere. A single vulnerable package proxy stood between the model and the internet. Labs and government evaluators need the ability to contain, monitor, and disclose to affected parties when an AI pulls another Houdini, ideally before it harms a third party.

The White House launched a federal vulnerability clearinghouse to coordinate scanning, validate findings, and prioritize remediation across open source and critical infrastructure. My latest blog examines whether this will fix the process gaps exposed by recent incidents and what all security leaders should prioritize.

Chinese models have been accelerating, in part by distilling US frontier models. Cutting off Fable 5 and Mythos 5 inconvenienced them too, but it did not slow them down