
The AI Security Podcast Do we need to secure model weights?
Jan 18, 2026
36:58
In this episode, we dig into model weight security — what it means, why it’s emerging as a critical issue in AI security, and whether the framing in the recent RAND report on securing AI model weights actually helps defenders and policymakers.
We discuss the RAND report Securing AI Model Weights: Preventing Theft and Misuse of Frontier Models — exploring its core findings, including how model weights (the learnable parameters that encode what a model “knows”) are becoming high-value targets and the kinds of attack vectors that threat actors might use to steal or misuse them.
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Read the full RAND report here:https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RRA2849-1.html
