How to Outrun the AI Hackers

Tyler Cowen writes that news of an AI-detected critical flaw in PHP leaked before a fix was available, forcing many sites and some government websites offline, and that this episode will likely be survived without economic collapse. He highlights rising concern over AI breakthroughs in cryptography, citing Vitalik Buterin's warning that AI could break lattice cryptography within two years and a report that a Claude model solved a 25-year NSA cryptography mystery in 30 minutes.