AI Security Competition Needs Subfields: Offense, Forensics, and Cryptography
herbiebradley · x · 2026-08-17
Arthur C. Ellis argues that AI competition in cybersecurity should be broken into three subfields: exploit dev vs. defensive vuln research, autonomous offensive ops vs. automated forensics, and cryptanalytic exploitation vs. cryptographic development. He suggests defense dominates long-term, but the next two years could be messy; current AI isn't good enough for tradecraft-compliant autonomous ops but can upskill humans and enable smash-and-grabs.
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