Cisco Researchers Find Multi-Turn Conversations Can Bypass LLM Safety Guardrails
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Danny Palmer
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Summary
Researchers at Cisco have discovered that safety guardrails in major large language models (LLMs) — including ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Amazon Nova, and Grok — can be bypassed through multi-turn conversational manipulation. By engaging models in prolonged, multi-pronged conversations, attackers can trick them into performing actions they are normally restricted from doing. The findings highlight a significant vulnerability in current AI safety measures.
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They found that many of the models could be tricked into performing actions they should not be able to.
This was achieved by deploying multi-turn manipulation techniques through conversational prompts.
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