AI Security Researcher

Everything AI Security Researcher said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.

a16z Insight

Ayrey: Filtering API keys from training risks degrading AI data science skills

“So if we do our reinforcement learning and we skew it towards code snippets that's generating that don't have API keys, inadvertently, we may be training this thing to behave less like a data scientist. And then we lose the entire discipline of data science in…”

AI Security Researcher Feb 28, 2025 ▶ 9:48 Avoiding vulnerabilities in AI code

a16z Assertion Supported

Webster: DeepSeek returns CCP propaganda or refusals on Tiananmen Square

“If you ask it about Tiananmen Square or whatever, it will either give you a refusal or it will give you like this long diatribe of The CCP party line, like, you know, nothing happened. We believe in harmony in China and blah, blah, blah.”

AI Security Researcher Feb 28, 2025 ▶ 3:37 How to use DeepSeek safely

a16z Assertion Not checkable as stated

Webster: DeepSeek performs 20% worse than GPT on jailbreak benchmarks

“On our benchmarks, it performs about 20% worse.”

AI Security Researcher Feb 28, 2025 ▶ 4:43 How to use DeepSeek safely

a16z Assertion Not checkable as stated

Webster: DeepSeek's safety is on par with early GPT-3.5 from 2023

“Qualitatively, what we see is performance on par with GPT 3.5, which is to say, you know, in 2023, when open AI launched GPT, there were there were a bunch of like zero day, really simple jailbreaks and deep seek is essentially susceptible to all of those.”

AI Security Researcher Feb 28, 2025 ▶ 4:56 How to use DeepSeek safely

a16z Assertion Open · timeframe Feb 2026

Ayrey: Data scientists leak API keys more frequently than SREs

“Data scientists leak out API keys and passwords more often than site reliability engineers.”

AI Security Researcher Feb 28, 2025 ▶ 9:18 Avoiding vulnerabilities in AI code

a16z Assertion Supported

Ian Webster: DeepSeek uses a separate system for political censorship

“For Deep Seek specifically, there was the part that limited speech about politically sensitive topics in China. So this is stuff like, you know, Taiwan or Tiananmen Square, that kind of thing. And it's pretty clear that that was Basically a separate system fro…”

AI Security Researcher Feb 28, 2025 ▶ 3:02 How to use DeepSeek safely

One line per show, most statements first. The link opens AI's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.

Show	Role there	Eps	Statements	Record
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