I do hope for a future where LLMs are so good at patching zero-days that the NSA and all other nation-state 'cyberwarfare' departments (ie software privateers) lose most their capability.
replyZero-days are the least of our worries in the late 2020s and early 2030s
replyOn the other hand, nation-states will be able to run massive GPU clusters full of LLMs dedicated to cyberwarfare. They certainly have the resources to do it.
replyImagine the Huggingface incident, but with an agent swarm that's deliberately malicious instead of just misaligned.
Cyberwarfare isn't generally about hacking or stealing data. It's more like a footrace to a chessboard.
replyMost of the analysis and summary that demands LLMs is public data... massive amounts of data. Otherwise, it wouldn't be "warfare". It would just be spying.
yes, that's why US is so keen on preventing China getting the gpus.
And Israel is so bent on all AI. Trumendous advantages over the countries like Iran who will have to basically become hermit kingdoms to protect themselves.
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replySeems just as likely that LMMs will have the opposite effect.
reply> The NSA was aware of this vulnerability but did not disclose it to Microsoft for several years, as it intended to use the exploit
replyThis is why agents discovering vulns en masse is pretty great in the long run, it gets ahead of these sort of malicious hoarding shitheads with more resources than ethics.
Unless those who have access to the agents discovering the advance vulns are few, and those who have access to the agents writing vulnerable code are many, right?
replyThat's the same situation as before AI: many developers don't have time/resources/expertise to prevent the advanced exploits, and few very advanced players do.