A new academic paper by Melissa Hathaway argues that AI is fundamentally shifting the balance between vulnerability discovery and remediation. Frontier AI models can now autonomously identify exploitable vulnerabilities at unprecedented speed, exposing decades of technical debt from a software industry that prioritized speed over security. The paper calls for vulnerability disclosure to evolve from a reactive, fragmented process into a coordinated national and international resilience effort, urging accelerated patch management, automated vulnerability repair investment, and policy action before adversaries exploit the narrowing window of opportunity.
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