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You Can’t Patch a Brain: Basic Challenges of AI Security

Part of Crack AI Product Interviews: The 3-Part Playbook

45 min
Feb 27, 2026 12:00 PM
Virtual (Zoom)

In this video

What you'll learn

The Illusion of Guardrails

Discover why current industry security filters are often "snake oil" that fail against adaptive attacks

Why You Can't Patch a Brain

Explore the "original sin" of LLM architecture—the concatenation of trusted and untrusted input

Engineering Robustness with CaMeL - beyond "scaffolding"

Principled defensive architecture that separates a system's control flow from untrusted data

Why this topic matters

As AI agents gain autonomy, weak guardrails turn small prompt hacks into serious security and safety risks. Understanding why traditional defenses fail—and how to design systems that separate control from untrusted data—helps you build safer AI by design. This lesson grows you from tool-user to systems thinker, capable of evaluating real-world risk in agentic AI products.

You'll learn from

Mahesh Yadav

Mahesh Yadav

Ex-GenAI Product Lead at MAANG Firms l AI PM Coach l 10k+ Alumni

Dominique Wimmer

Dominique Wimmer

Product @NYC OTI, Ex-Meta/Google, AI | Safety | Security

Previously at

Google
Meta
Amazon Web Services
Microsoft
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