NDC Conferences YouTube · January 29, 2026

Doors of (AI)pportunity: The Front and Backdoors of LLMs - Kasimir Schulz & Kenneth Yeung

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NDC AI 2025 talk on LLM frontdoors and backdoors, jailbreak techniques, control-token abuse, local model compromise, and how attackers or insiders can manipulate model behavior.

My takeaway: Doors of (AI)pportunity: The Front and Backdoors of LLMs - Kasimir Schulz & Kenneth Yeung is a red-team signal. The practical read is to treat model behavior manipulation, hidden logic, and local-model compromise as testable adversarial paths rather than demo-only jailbreak tricks.
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