Heather McIntyre

Communications Principal

FAR.AI

Heather McIntyre is Communications Principal at FAR.AI, bringing senior-level experience in corporate communications, executive thought leadership, and reputation strategy across complex, high-stakes environments. She focuses on translating operational complexity into clear, credible narratives that support public understanding, evidence-based governance, and responsible innovation.

At FAR.AI, Heather helps shape external communications that elevate independent AI safety research and strengthen engagement with key audiences, including the business community, the general public, researchers, and policymakers. Outside the office, Heather is a lifelong learner and an avid traveler, and believes the strongest organizations are built on clarity, curiosity, and genuine human connection.

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Security Stress Test: Exposing the Brittleness of DeepSeek-V4-Pro’s Safeguards

Red-Teaming & Evaluation

We evaluated whether DeepSeek-V4-Pro’s built-in safeguards could reliably prevent harmful assistance across several high-risk domains, and the results were stark. When subjected to adversarial testing across Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear (CBRN) threats, cyberattacks, and terrorism-related activities, its safeguards collapsed almost completely. Low-skill attackers were able to bypass the model’s safety mechanisms with success rates ranging from 98-100% across every domain tested. Most alarming: a publicly available jailbreak originally developed for the model’s predecessor worked on DeepSeek-V4-Pro without a single modification, exploitable by anyone with API access. This indicates that the previously known vulnerability remains completely unpatched.

May 11, 2026
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