Security researchers debate whether $1M in AI tokens finds the same bugs
kuza55 · x · 2026-11-07
Two security researchers debated whether large-scale AI bug hunting erodes defenders' advantage. justdionysus argued that spending $100M in tokens doesn't make the next bug more expensive, and since the tech serves both sides, it's unclear if attack costs actually rise.
kuza55 countered that the key is how token spend translates into unique bugs: if $1M in tokens from independent actors finds the same bugs, defenders gain a clear advantage by pooling resources — by analogy to Linux, defenders collectively contributing $100M to bug-finding beats any individual attacker, so overall AI likely makes bugs more expensive.
More from Safety
- Critic: Anthropic backs recursive self-improvement at full speed while only talking about safety — peterwildeford · 2026-11-07
- EuroSafeGuard adds only 1% compute overhead for full-traffic jailbreak defense — ZhijingJin · 2026-11-07
- EuroSafeGuard: first fully open Constitutional Classifiers guardrail beats 16 open guards — ZhijingJin · 2026-11-07
- Cryptographers flag that AI agents fail Cloudflare challenges; blind signatures may fix it — jedisct1 · 2026-11-07
- Cloudflare outlines post-quantum web privacy future powered by blind-signature breakthrough — jedisct1 · 2026-11-07
- Signal president debates AI policy head: should we stop trusting AI agents with our data? — neil_chilson · 2026-11-07