AI and hackers - bad?

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Summary

A discussion questioning whether AI's ability to find software bugs is a problem or an opportunity for companies like Google and Microsoft to proactively fix vulnerabilities.

Non programmer, AI skeptic (of sorts) I’ve been reading how AI is doing a ‘great’ job of finding software bugs and how this is/could be a problem. Why? Wouldn’t the likes of Google and Microsoft stand to gain from having their AI models find bugs in their respective software so they could immediately get to plugging the bug? And wouldn’t they gain by turning their AI models on any new software before release instead of waiting/hoping some good guy finds the (inevitable) bugs before the bad guys do? * I’m not referring to AI cracking passwords, to me that’s a separate issue than software bugs and the security issues they present.
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