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Or the simultaneous discovery of thousands of cryptographic exploits...

• poincaredisk 2y ago
  Still waiting for the first one. I'm not holding my breath - just like fuzzing found a lot of vulnerabilities in low-level software, I expect novel automated analysis approaches will yield some vulnerabilities - but that won't be a catastrophic event just like fuzzing wasn't.
  • sqeaky 2y ago
    I hope it doesn't find a new class of bug. Find another thing like Spectre could be problematic. EDIT - I hope if that new class of bug exists that it is found. I hope that new class of bug doesn't exist.
  • throwaway240403 2y ago
    Hope that's true. Really mucks up the world a bit if not.
  • criddell 2y ago
    It's rumored that the NSA has 600 mathematicians working for them. If they are the ones finding the exploits you will probably never hear about them until they are independently discovered by someone who can publish.
  • ComplexSystems 2y ago
    Why don't you think that AI models will, perhaps rather soon, surpass human capabilities in finding security vulnerabilities? Because an AI that's even equally competent would be a fairly catastrophic event.