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Will AI make cyberattacks worse?
Of the 9 moments we cut that answer this, 5 say attackers gain more, 3 say defenders gain more and one says both sides gain. George Kurtz said on No Priors (Oct 22, 2026) that AI increases vulnerability volume and speeds exploitation, raising the pace defenders must handle. Greg Brockman said on No Priors (Oct 15, 2026) that AI gives defenders a temporary lead to find and fix flaws before capabilities spread.
Where they stand
Attackers gain5
AI attacks raise the pace, not create a new attack class
“there isn't it's just been trained on what we know it hasn't developed its own yet”
George KurtzPresident & CEO, CrowdStrike30:27 AI vulnerability findings create an asymmetric race
“they just need one vulnerability they don't need 10 vulnerabilities”
Nikesh AroraChairman & CEO, Palo Alto Networks17:05 A neocloud security gap exposed other customers’ workloads
“we just accidentally ended up like seeing all of the other clients on that cluster, seeing what stuff they had in storage, see what stuff they had in slurm, etc.”
Dylan PatelFounder & CEO, SemiAnalysis41:07 AI has to take over the detect-and-respond loop
“if you have humans in the detect and respond loop, you're going to be too slow.”
Kevin MandiaFounder & CEO, Armadin21:53 AI makes attacks faster and could reshape nation-state tactics
“with ai i think becomes more like a drone swarm it becomes a little bit different in the cyber domain”
Kevin MandiaFounder & CEO, Armadin8:07
Defenders gain3
Defenders need to test systems before attackers do
“so like I said, so the point is, is that you can test your own system before some bad actor tests your system for you.”
Devon ThomasCEO, Abliteration4:17 AI gives defenders a window to find and fix security flaws
“we took about 25% of our production engineers and said, all of your projects are on hold. You are just securing now.”
Greg BrockmanPresident & Co-founder, OpenAI30:00 AI can give defenders a compounding advantage
“the defenders have a huge advantage in the sense that they do know and they can actually analyze it to really have deep context”
Yinon CosticaCo-founder, Wiz40:30
Both sides gain1
A public challenge helped test Vercel’s agent sandbox
“Only one person with an army of agents was able to make progress and we're basically processing his contribution now”
Guillermo RauchFounder & CEO, Vercel48:13
Each moment is a few minutes of a long interview, cut by Real Alpha and filed under how it answers by a model that read its claim and quote. Open a moment for its full transcript. Last moment added Oct 23, 2026.