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  <title>Washington Examiner: Big Tech is leading the ‘AI safety’ guardrails push: For protection or profit?</title>
  <pubDate>October 09, 2026 14:31:00 EDT</pubDate>
  <description>Vahid Behzadan, associate professor of cybersecurity, data science, and computer and electrical engineering and co-founder of the Connecticut Artificial Intelligence Alliance, says he believes industry-wide talks of coordination about implementing AI guardrails tend to, “coincide with their business goals rather than actually addressing the problem.”</description>
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  <external_link>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/in_focus/4751768/big-tech-ai-safety-guardrails-push-protection-profit/</external_link>
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