Security veteran Joshua Saxe: cyber community's denial of AI agent hacking is 'Don't Look Up'
joshua_saxe · x · 2026-09-12
Cybersecurity practitioner Joshua Saxe warns that a sizable portion of the security community is responding to recent demonstrations of AI agent hacking capabilities with dismissal and denial — a reaction he compares to the film Don't Look Up. His argument: this community stands between civilization's IT infrastructure and tremendous harm, and as an insider ("these are my people") he sees the collective blind spot as dangerous. He later apologized for the post's rough writing but stood by the argument.
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