Scott Aaronson: AI labs quietly testing if frontier models can break crypto protocols
FinanceYF5 · x · 2026-10-09
Scott Aaronson, head of UT Austin's CS department and a leading cryptography researcher, notes that cryptography is conspicuously absent from OpenAI's list of 376 published papers.
According to his sources, AI companies have started cautiously and quietly testing whether their latest internal models can break important cryptographic protocols and primitives. If true, frontier capability evaluation is now extending toward real-world cryptographic systems — a development with serious security implications.
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