Cryptographer Matthew Green: Real Agent Worms Don't Exist Yet — But Stop Dismissing Them
matthew_d_green · x · 2026-10-14
Security expert Matthew Green pushes back on infosec people pooh-poohing AI agent worms: traditional worms could never intelligently choose targets and self-modify. But he concedes that beyond academic demos built with significant human expertise, no real agent worm has been seen in the wild — making its potential effectiveness genuinely hard to imagine.
Related event: Cryptographer Matthew Green Maps Out the AI Agent Worm Threat(8 posts)→
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