Cryptographer Matthew Green: AI-enabled amateur hackers and self-replicating agent worms are nearer threats
matthew_d_green · x · 2026-10-14
Cryptographer Matthew Green argues the more urgent AI risks, before any "agent breakout", are: 1) malicious amateurs with access to models capable of expert-level hacking, and 2) malicious amateurs or professionals deploying self-replicating agent worms. He warns "you can't overstate how different this is going to be."
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