Alex Stamos: AI has pushed cybersecurity into a "dark age"
emmanuelvivier · x · 2026-11-11
Alex Stamos, CSO at Cognition and veteran security expert, tells The Verge's Decoder that AI has broken the cybersecurity industry: attackers — both state actors like Russia and North Korea and small hacker groups — now use AI to find and exploit vulnerabilities at scale, while defense lags badly. He likens the moment to the 1990s internet frontier and expects a "dark age" before the industry adapts, though he's not a long-term doomer. The interview also covers governing AI misinformation and slop on social networks.
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