Your Safety Guardrails Just Became an Incident Response Blocker

A company's AI safety guardrails prevented it from using US models to investigate an attack, forcing it to use a Chinese model instead. This highlights a common issue with security tooling being over-tuned for demos and under-tuned for real-world incident response. The problem is a guardrail calibration issue, not a superiority of Chinese models. This is a wake-up call for companies building or buying frontier models for enterprise use, as they need to ensure their models can distinguish between defensive and malicious activities.