Tyler Cowen: How to Outrun the AI Hackers

Last Thursday, news that AI had detected a critical flaw in PHP leaked before the fix was available. (Illustration by The Free Press )

Systems that guard our email and bank accounts are vulnerable to attacks, but building on the best defenses will buy time and prevent a crisis.

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AI commentator Zvi Mowshowitz declared : “It was the probably worst day in cybersecurity history. So far.” The day in question was last Thursday, when news that AI had detected a critical flaw in PHP, a programming language used for building websites, leaked before the fix was available. That sent much of the internet running for patches and fixes, and the result probably will be that many older websites end up permanently dysfunctional.…