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a16z|Oct 22, 2026 23:00
AI can now find vulnerabilities with internet-scale impact. Greg Brockman on why defenders can hold the advantage, what OpenAI did to secure itself, and its $1B commitment to secure critical infrastructure: "This [cyber] capability broadly diffused, I think is something that will really empower threat actors in new ways. And I think that defenders need to use this time before that technology's broadly available to secure themselves." "At OpenAI, we took 25% of our production engineers and said, 'Sorry, all your projects are on hold. You are now defending... You're going to use the models to find all the holes.' And we found a number of serious issues and we fixed them." "You want to be in this tight loop of new cyber capability drops, you deploy it against your systems, you find the new holes, and ideally, you've managed to automate this... If you can do that at machine speed, I think the defenders will be advantaged in deeply significant ways." "Not every organization will have the capital required to do it. So we have a billion-dollar commitment to frontline defenders, so to organizations that we all rely on every day in our communities, to access our models to secure themselves." "I've never met a CISO who felt that they were appropriately resourced... Now is a moment where we actually have a real both motivation to do it and a real ability to do it." @gdb
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