Matthew Green: red-team AI access now decides who can produce a working exploit
matthew_d_green · x · 2026-10-26
Cryptographer Matthew Green pushes back on the hacker motto "Proof of concept or GTFO": what was a good heuristic in 2024 no longer holds in 2026. Whether you can produce a working exploit now hinges on having access to a red-team AI model — and many people don't — which reshapes the fairness of evidence standards in vulnerability disclosure debates.
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