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The safety penalty: Reclaiming operational sovereignty in the age of AI

medtalosPublished 2026-08-25

<ul><li>As frontier models advance in cyber capability, their guardrails also become more restrictive.&#xa0;</li><li>Defenders relying on these models to power core SOC processes cannot afford to pay the &#x201c;safety penalty&#x201d; of being blocked by these safeguards.&#xa0;</li><li>Organizations should monitor model refusal rates and use the data to create a strategy to ensure operational sove

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Original source: https://blog.talosintelligence.com/the-safety-penalty-reclaiming-operational-sovereignty-in-the-age-of-ai/