AI Hackers Are Coming Dangerously Close to Beating Humans

Stanford researchers spent much of the past year building an AI bot called Artemis that scans networks for software vulnerabilities, and when they pitted it against ten professional penetration testers on the university's own engineering network, the bot outperformed nine of them. The experiment offers a window into how rapidly AI hacking tools have improved after years of underwhelming performance.
"We thought it would probably be below average," said Justin Lin, a Stanford cybersecurity resear