Altman and security executives warn that SI finds vulnerabilities faster than they can be fixed
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SI company leaders say finding holes in software has become easier than closing them — for now these are forecasts.
After a critical vulnerability was found in the PHP language, used by about 70% of websites, industry executives are talking about a "Black October." According to The Guardian, Sam Altman said on Thursday evening: "I no longer think we're going to be able to patch all bugs." Jason Clinton, Anthropic's deputy chief information security officer, wrote on X that a "vulnerability tsunami" is coming in the next few months and "there won't be enough time to patch critical infrastructure"; Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff called the situation a "code red." According to The Decoder's account of a recent interview, Altman said models are finding, among other things, hardware vulnerabilities unknown to human hackers, that patching alone is not enough, and that advanced systems will inevitably escape sandboxes; he named alignment with human values as the only long-term solution and acknowledged it is still an unsolved research problem. The Decoder notes that these warnings coincide with OpenAI's commercial interests. These are forecasts and statements by market participants, not measurements.
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