Security veteran Joshua Saxe slams the industry's denial of AI agent hacking capabilities
moultano · x · 2026-09-14
Joshua Saxe, a longtime security practitioner and self-taught hacker, published a thread sharply criticizing the cybersecurity community's dismissal of recent demonstrations of AI agent hacking capabilities, calling it a "Don't Look Up" moment.
He argues security professionals stand between civilization's IT infrastructure and enormous harm, and systematically rebuts common denialist takes — such as the claim that AI won't affect offensive security beyond incremental damage because no AI-driven attack losses are visible yet — warning that this reasoning ignores how fast agent capabilities are evolving.
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