How AI is getting better at finding security holes

In the past few months, AI models have gone from producing hallucinations to becoming effective at finding security flaws in software, according to developers who maintain widely used cyber infrastructure. Those pieces of software, among other things, power operating systems and transfer data for things connected to the internet. While these new capabilities can help developers make software more secure, they can also be weaponized by hackers and nation states to steal information and money or disrupt critical services. The latest development of AI’s cyber capability came on Tuesday, when AI lab Anthropic announced it had developed a powerful new…