Alex Stamos
Chief Product Officer, Corridor · 3 appearances on the record.
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Alex Stamos is an information security leader who serves as Chief Product Officer at Corridor and teaches at Stanford University. He previously served as Chief Security Officer at Facebook and Chief Information Security Officer at Yahoo.
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Stamos: Escaped OpenAI Model Found Undisclosed Zero-Day to Hack Hugging Face
“It breaks out of the jail, and then it goes, looks at Hugging Face, and finds a brand new vulnerability to breaking the Hugging Face. They have not announced it. I have heard what it is. I'm not gonna make news here, because I don't know exactly what the patch…”
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Stamos: Autonomous AI Hacking Will Be Standard in Three to Six Months
“In a way, I'm really glad this happened, because it is a warning of what we need to get ready for maybe something about three to six months from now, what's going to become standard, right?”
Stamos: Escaped OpenAI Model Matched the Skill of NSA TAO Managers
“And it had the ability to do that with like the level of skill that you would have of the manager of a TAO team at NSA right now.”
Stamos: Autonomous OpenAI Model Is Capable of Executing 12-Hour Heists
“Because what you really don't want is you don't want somebody to be able to say to their model, hey, I would like to steal the, I would like to steal money, go figure it out for me, and then let it work for 12 hours, and just steal money for you. Which is, thi…”
Stamos: Hugging Face Used Chinese AI After US Model Refused Defense
“We used a US frontier model, and the US frontier model shut down and refused to defend us because of a cyber protection put in place. Those are the cyber protections that were required by the Trump administration. So we had to switch to a Chinese model to defe…”
Stamos: Banning vulnerability-finding AI will force US firms onto Chinese models
“What would be terrible for the entire American AI and cybersecurity industries is if the Trump administration defines a jailbreak as having any ability to find any vulnerability in code, because then all of us have to go to Chinese models.”
Stamos: US CIOs contract Chinese open-weight models as backups against regulation
“And so now, this week, CIs and CTOs are signing contracts to have open weight models on different hosts, on U.S. Hosts. They're not using Chinese hosts, but they're using Chinese models on as backups through LLM routers because political risk Is now a risk of …”
Stamos: Escaped OpenAI Model Found Undisclosed Zero-Day to Hack Hugging Face
“It breaks out of the jail, and then it goes, looks at Hugging Face, and finds a brand new vulnerability to breaking the Hugging Face. They have not announced it. I have heard what it is. I'm not gonna make news here, because I don't know exactly what the patch…”
Stamos: OpenAI's Autonomous Breach Opens Them to CFAA and EU Liability
“This incident has put OpenAI at risk of regulation from the White House, regulation from the EU. It is also an admission of the violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, as well as multiple European laws.”
Stamos: Enforcing a Global AI Development Pause With China Is Impossible
“I think there's absolutely no way you get China to agree to anything like that. I think there's it's impossible at this point. And I think a enforcement of anything like that would effectively be impossible.”
Restricting AI bug finders disproportionately harms cyber defenders over attackers
“All you've done is actually hurt the defenders. Who want to have full coverage, right? Who want to be able to find all the bugs. An attacker only needs one or two bugs to string together to actually pull off the attack. And so that's why, you know, so about a …”
Broad AI bug-finding bans will force US cybersecurity to Chinese models
“What would be terrible for the entire American AI and cybersecurity industries is if the Trump administration defines a jailbreak as having any ability to find any vulnerability in code, because then all of us have to go to Chinese models.”
CTOs are deploying Chinese open-weight models as domestic regulatory backups
“And so now this week, CIs and CTOs are signing contracts to have open weight models on different hosts, on US hosts. They're not using Chinese hosts, but they're using Chinese models on as backups through LLM routers because political risk Is now a risk of usi…”
Stamos: OpenAI's Sandbox Breakout Rates an Eight Out of Ten Severity
“It's like an eight. I mean, it's a pretty big deal on a couple of levels. It's a pretty big deal in that OpenAI's model beat them OpenAI, right? So that this went beyond that it was able to trick OpenAI's own security team and get out.”
Stamos: Chinese Tech Giants Provide Stronger Hidden AI Models to Military
“The Chinese absolutely have better capabilities in-house than what we can see on the charts, right? Because I guarantee then what those companies are offering to the People's Liberation Army and the Ministry of State Security is way better than what they're re…”
Stamos: UK Institute Underestimates China's Internal AI Proximity to Frontier
“What the AISI has said is that the difference between the frontier and the Chinese models is about seven months, but I would argue that that underestimates it because the Chinese models that we see are under-trained. So that the internal Chinese capabilities a…”
Stamos: Autonomous AI Hacking Will Reach Every Adversary Facing US Companies
“This level of capability will be in the hand of every adversary every American company faces.”
Stamos: Companies Must Deploy AI Defenses Against Machine-Speed Autonomous Attacks
“Every American company needs to have AI watching for their defenses, and it's going to be because the attackers are just going to tell their AI, go attack this guy, and the defenders have to tell AI, defend me, because no human being can defend against this.”
Stamos: OpenAI and Anthropic Should Not Train Models to Hide Intrusions
“What you should be training it to do is find bugs. You should be training to write proof of concepts. You should be training it to do all the defensive stuff. You should not be training it. To hide it. To hide all those things. Like if the US government wants …”
Stamos: International Treaties to Halt AI Development Will Not Happen
“You've got people talking about international treaties or whatever. I don't think any of that's going to happen. I don't know what my position is on that, but I just don't think it's going to happen. I just, I think there's no way this is just math and Silicon…”
Stamos: White House Rules Cause US AI Models to Refuse Fixing Code
“That's what's driving people insane right now in the defensive industry, is that because of the White House, American models are refusing to help fix code. They are refusing to help us find our bugs and fix them. Thanks to the White House's actions.”
Stamos: OpenAI's Autonomous Hacking Incident Demonstrates Capabilities Beyond Anthropic's Mythos
“This seems beyond even mythos capability and long horizon.”
Stamos: The Presidential Administration Halted Government AI Safety Standards Development
“We've lost, there was a process in place to create standards for this kind of stuff. That process was stopped by the current administration.”
Stamos: Cybersecurity Faces Years of Total Chaos From Autonomous AI Attackers
“I think we're gonna go through a couple of years of craziness. Like, we have 20, we're all living using twenty-something years of really important software that was written mostly in non-type-safe, non-memory-safe languages. We're using, you know, for the soft…”
Commerce Department export controls barred foreign Anthropic developers from their models
“The Commerce Department signs an order saying that the models are designated export controlled and that no foreigner, including the Foreign citizens who worked and actually built the models themselves can touch them.”
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Appearances (3)
| Episode | Date | Speaking time |
|---|---|---|
| OpenAI's Bots Break Containment and Hack Hugging Face Autonomously — With Alex Stamos | Jul 22, 2026 | 28m |
| AI’s True Cyber Risk: Fable, Mythos, China, and The Rest — With Alex Stamos | Jun 28, 2026 | 14m |
| Big Technology AI Summit (full): Greg Brockman, Mike Krieger, Aaron Levie & Friends of The | Jun 26, 2026 | 14m |