A fundamental flaw leaves LLMs strikingly vulnerable to attack

Original publisher: MIT Technology Review (www.technologyreview.com)

Canonical URL: https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/07/30/1140927/a-fundamental-flaw-leaves-llms-vulnerable-to-attack/

Summary excerpt

It is impossible to make large language models fully secure against hacks because of a fundamental flaw in how they work, a team of researchers argue in a paper presented at the International Conference on Machine Learning, a top AI conference, this month. The claim has huge implications for the safety of this…