I Broke AI Systems for a Living. Here’s How Attackers Actually Do It.

Most companies shipping AI have never once tried to break it. Not because they don't care about security. Because they assume the model handles it. The model was trained to refuse harmful requests. The model has guardrails. The model is safe. That assumption is exactly what attackers rely on. I red team AI systems professionally. I spend my days finding the paths that developers didn't think to close — inputs that make models do things they were explicitly told not to, architectural gaps that tu