AI Circle Clashes Over Whether This Week's Cyber Attacks Were AI-Driven
basedjensen · x · 2026-10-24
- deanwball argues that denying this week's cyber events are AI-driven is delusional, predicting people will soon say AI is merely "exposing the underlying weakness of flesh."
- lumpenspace counters that the main vulnerability in question was discovered and patched thanks to AI, and that this isn't even the largest set of cyber incidents he's followed; he concedes some attacks used AI tools but says that wasn't his point.
A representative AI-security debate: AI as both attack tool and defensive asset.
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