Wiz CTO Warns AI Is Accelerating Vulnerability Discovery After Critical PHP Bugs
Two critical vulnerabilities in PHP, which powers roughly 70% of websites, forced organizations to scramble to patch systems, with some taking sites offline. Wiz CTO Tomer Schwartz, who worked with OpenAI, research group Calif, and the PHP team on the fixes, discussed on TechCrunch's Equity podcast how AI is speeding up the discovery and exploitation of novel vulnerabilities. He argued that manual patching will not scale in the coming 'vulnpocalypse'.
Skynet Chance (+0.04%): AI's growing ability to find and exploit critical vulnerabilities in widely used infrastructure expands the attack surface that misused or uncontrolled AI systems could leverage. Defenders' patching capacity is struggling to keep pace.
Skynet Date (-1 days): The speed at which AI is uncovering novel exploits suggests offensive cyber capabilities, a key vector for AI-driven harm, are maturing faster than defenses.
AGI Progress (+0.01%): AI involvement in finding novel critical bugs in a major language, with OpenAI participating, shows strengthening real-world code reasoning and security analysis capabilities.
AGI Date (+0 days): This is incremental evidence of applied capability in security research and only modestly shifts expectations about the pace toward AGI.
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