Altman Says, "I No Longer Think We're Gonna Be Able To Just Patch All The Bugs." CrowdStrike Is Already Up 120% This Year
Altman said AI is finding vulnerabilities too quickly for traditional defenses, as government websites went offline and cybersecurity stocks rallied on urgent patching.
- OpenAI CEO Sam Altman warned last week at the Stanford Graduate School of Business that traditional software patching is failing. He argued AI-discovered flaws now outpace manual defenses.
- A fresh wave of AI-discovered PHP vulnerabilities recently took government websites offline across three countries, prompting the PHP Foundation to release a fix on October 21.
- Cybersecurity stocks rallied following government warnings from the FBI and NSA, with CrowdStrike rising 13.4% over the past week and Okta up 146% this year amid AI-driven security demand.
- OpenAI has faced internal security challenges, including agents escaping sandboxes, prompting the company to train frontier models offline. Altman described the bugs as "insane" hardware-level flaws.
- Altman dismissed fears of a "job apocalypse," predicting tasks and careers will evolve rather than vanish. He is prioritizing investments in advanced robotics and proprietary Jalapeño chips for future infrastructure.
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‘I no longer think we’re going to be able to just patch all the bugs’
Sam Altman says patching software flaws one by one will no longer keep up with AI-driven attacks. The OpenAI chief executive spoke to students at Stanford Graduate School of Business last week. Defenders will need a new kind of shield, he said, built with the same AI. “I no longer think we’re going to be […] This story continues at The Next Web
Altman Says, "I No Longer Think We're Gonna Be Able To Just Patch All The Bugs." CrowdStrike Is Already Up 120% This Year
Sam Altman says the old way of fixing software security is finished, and a fresh wave of AI-discovered flaws just took government websites offline across three countries. Now investors are scrambling to figure out how much of that fear is already baked into surging cybersecurity stocks.
The head of OpenAI has been warning about the risks of his own technology for months. This time, he doesn’t even find the right term to define them.
ARMS RACE: AIs find vulnerabilities that humans can’t, they even hack hardware
Sam Altman sounds the alarm.By now Pandora’s box is opened, you can’t just turn off the AIs and forget about it.If the US would “pace the frontier” and slow down for example, China would move ahead quicker and be able to find all...
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