AI-found PHP flaws forced emergency site shutdowns across Europe — and reignited the AI doomer debate
DrTechlash · x · 2026-10-24
Cybersecurity experts used AI to uncover two critical flaws in PHP, which powers roughly two-thirds of the web, prompting several European governments to briefly shut down sites on Tuesday to fix them before malicious actors could exploit them; millions more sites still need patching. An UnHerd essay uses the incident to frame AI's double-edged nature — the same capability could have been weaponized first — while arguing that well-funded AI doomers are exploiting such risks to grab regulatory power, building dystopian controls rather than addressing real cybercrime.
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