The Neuron: AI Explained

Where Does AI Agent Security Actually Live?

August 28, 2026·54 min
Episode Description from the Publisher

AI companies spend enormous effort making models safer, but the model tested in the lab isn't necessarily the system a company eventually deploys. Alice CEO and co-founder Noam Schwartz joins Corey and Grant to explain why prompts, tools, memory, permissions, data, and agent-to-agent interactions create an entirely new security surface. They dig into the growing “trust gap” around enterprise AI, why prompt injection may become a permanent cat-and-mouse game, what open-weight models change for defenders, and why Schwartz believes the real security boundary has to exist at every layer of an AI system. The bigger takeaway: as AI moves from answering questions to taking actions, traditional cybersecurity may need to merge with fraud prevention, threat intelligence, and trust and safety.OpenAI security incident: https://openai.com/index/hugging-face-model-evaluation-security-incident/Alice: https://alice.io/Alice on agentic AI security: https://alice.io/blog/key-security-risks-posed-by-agentic-ai-and-how-to-mitigate-themAlice open-weight research: https://alice.io/blog/okay-here-is-how-to-build-a-bomb-millions-download-dangerous-llmsSubscribe to The Neuron newsletter: https://theneuron.aiSponsored by Dell Technologies and NVIDIA. Learn more at https://www.techrepublic.com/hubs/the-enterprise-guide-to-scalable-ai/

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