New York Times: Technology from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google and other companies could allow hackers to identify security holes in computer systems far faster than in the past, vastly raising the stakes in the decades-long fight between hackers and the security experts guarding computer networks.
But like other tools from the long history of cybersecurity, the latest A.I. can be used for both offense and defense. As hackers deploy A.I. to break and steal, security experts are also leaning on A.I. to spot flaws in their systems — including some that had gone unnoticed for decades. The question is who finds the flaws first…