Miles Brundage Proposes 'Operation Patchlight': Using AI to Fix Open-Source Vulnerabilities
Miles_Brundage · x · 2026-08-06
Miles Brundage shared his in-depth report, Operation Patchlight, outlining a strategy to leverage advanced AI for asymmetric cybersecurity advantages.
The report highlights that the open-source software supply chain underpinning critical infrastructure is dangerously vulnerable. As AI empowers attackers with greater speed and scale, the report proposes a national moonshot with two pillars: using cutting-edge AI to proactively find and fix vulnerabilities in open-source code, and funding AI-powered defensive tools to empower critical infrastructure defenders, aiming for overall cyberdefense dominance.
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