Zach Weiner: cybersecurity's future is endless swarms of AI hacker bots vs defender bots
birchlse · x · 2026-10-23
Cartoonist Zach Weiner offers a non-doomer but unsettling take: the world is entering a state where the normal operation of cybersecurity consists of vast swarms of AI hacker bots battling vast swarms of defender bots 24/7, at a scale beyond human comprehension — and he argues that doesn't seem like a great path forward.
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