AI safety researcher warns open Chinese models may gain zero-day exploit discovery in 6 months
NathanpmYoung · x · 2026-09-03
Nathan Young responds to criticism about anthropomorphizing AI agents, arguing the debate is really about capabilities. With enough compute, agents alone can hack sophisticated targets, including discovering zero-day exploits. Those capabilities are currently mostly in US frontier models not publicly available, but he predicts they'll land in open-source Chinese models within about 6 months — leaving organizations still running free or GPT-4-era models vulnerable. His call: prepare now.
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