This Week in Startups · October 3, 2026 · 53m

Inside The Startup Building Uncensored AI (Abliteration AI) | EP 2345

Jason Calacanis interviews Devon Thomas, founder of Abliteration.ai, on building AI tools without safety guardrails to empower defenders. They discuss inversion of control in AI safety, the liability debate, and why frontier labs hype their own jailbreaks. In Ask Jason, topics include AI's impact on the billable-hour model, whether AI microdramas are a real ecosystem, and how AI makes solo founders more fundable.

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Abliteration: Removing AI guardrails to arm defenders00:00

Devon Thomas explains that Abliteration builds uncensored AI tools so defenders can test against the same capabilities that attackers already use.

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Inversion of control: Letting customers define their own AI guardrails04:16

Devon proposes that instead of AI labs deciding where safety lines are drawn, customers should have the ability to set their own guardrails.

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