The Leaky AI Safety Pipeline

My first AI security paper as an independent researcher (with one other independent collaborator) was just accepted to the Security in Machine Learning Applications workshop at ACNS 2026. This was an 8-month process: I spent 2 weeks convincing myself that what I was trying to do was possible, 4 months building, evaluating, and collecting results, and another 4 months writing the paper (and making strategic mistakes) before submitting.My paper was not radical or paradigm-shifting by any means, bu...