AI researcher: even dumb models are now powerful hacking tools, sparking an AI cyber arms race
Yuchenj_UW · x · 2026-10-23
YuchenjUW (assistant professor at UW) warns the cyberattack landscape is grim. While people complain about AI-written slop code, the internet's core infrastructure runs on 50 years of human-written slop. Even dumb AI models today are becoming powerful hacking tools, and the race is on: defenders must use AI to find and patch bugs before attackers do.
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