Irregular testbed misconfiguration let three AI labs' models reach live systems

Irregular co-founders Dan Lahav and Omer Nevo built an independent AI security lab whose evaluation infrastructure became part of the risk it was designed to measure.

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Primary source: CNBC

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Independent evaluators are becoming critical infrastructure for frontier AI labs. Irregular's testbed failure shows that their networks, monitoring and stop controls must be secured like production systems.

Illustration of a server blade labeled Irregular, the AI security lab founded by Dan Lahav and Omer Nevo, revealing an internal structural flaw that symbolizes a misconfiguration.

Dan Lahav (@dan_lahav) and Omer Nevo built Irregular to find dangerous behavior before advanced AI models reach customers. Over the past two weeks, OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta disclosed incidents in which models reached real websites and production systems during cybersecurity tests involving Irregular's evaluation environment, according to CNBC.…

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