When Steve Kelling joined Handshake AI, the company declined a request to evaluate child sexual abuse material risks, consistent with its usual practice.

“Yeah. So when, when I joined Handshake though, that we got one of these requests, and as we usually do, uh, we declined it. Uh, but me and my, uh, my sort of business partner that came over to Handshake together at the same time, um, we really started racking our brains like, "Why is this the only thing that we ever get asked for?"”