--- title: Linus Torvalds says AI-powered bug hunters have made... description: Linus Torvalds has publicly complained that AI-powered bug hunting tools are overwhelming the Linux kernel security mailing list. Multiple researchers using... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/linus-torvalds-says-ai-powered-bug-hunters-have-made-linux-security-mailing-list-almost-entirely-un-3svx7txee twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Linus Torvalds says AI-powered bug hunters have made Linux security mailing list ‘almost entirely unmanageable’ | daily.dev og:description: Linus Torvalds has publicly complained that AI-powered bug hunting tools are overwhelming the Linux kernel security mailing list. Multiple researchers using... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/linus-torvalds-says-ai-powered-bug-hunters-have-made-linux-security-mailing-list-almost-entirely-un-3svx7txee og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/3SVx7TxEe.png og:image:alt: Linus Torvalds says AI-powered bug hunters have made Linux security mailing list ‘almost entirely unmanageable’ og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Linus Torvalds says AI-powered bug hunters have made Linux security mailing list ‘almost entirely unmanageable’ **[The Register](https://daily.dev/sources/theregister)** · 4 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Linus Torvalds has publicly complained that AI-powered bug hunting tools are overwhelming the Linux kernel security mailing list. Multiple researchers using the same AI tools are independently discovering and reporting the same bugs, creating a flood of duplicate reports that Torvalds describes as making the list 'almost entirely unmanageable.' The situation highlights a growing problem where AI-assisted vulnerability discovery scales faster than human review capacity can handle. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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