# Will AI make cyberattacks worse?

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Of the 10 moments we cut that answer this, 6 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 gain 6
  - Matthew Prince
  - George Kurtz
  - Nikesh Arora
  - Dylan Patel
  - Kevin Mandia ×2
- Both sides gain 1
  - Guillermo Rauch
- Defenders gain 3
  - Devon Thomas
  - Greg Brockman
  - Yinon Costica

## Attackers gain 6

1. TBPN · Oct 22, 2026 · 5 min
   **[AI helps attackers navigate systems after a breach](https://realalpha.app/s/ai-helps-attackers-navigate-systems-after-a-breach/)**
   > “What we're seeing now is if that same hack happened today, the attackers are using AI to say, OK, I found myself in Salesforce.”
   [Matthew Prince](https://realalpha.app/people/matthew-prince/) Co-founder & CEO, Cloudflare [12:19](https://realalpha.app/v/xq6fzvVM6V4/?t=739)
2. No Priors · Oct 22, 2026 · 3 min
   **[AI attacks raise the pace, not create a new attack class](https://realalpha.app/s/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 Kurtz](https://realalpha.app/people/george-kurtz/) President & CEO, CrowdStrike [30:27](https://realalpha.app/v/PST8yesYOSo/?t=1827)
3. All-In · Oct 21, 2026 · 3 min
   **[AI vulnerability findings create an asymmetric race](https://realalpha.app/s/ai-vulnerability-findings-create-an-asymmetric-race/)**
   > “they just need one vulnerability they don't need 10 vulnerabilities”
   [Nikesh Arora](https://realalpha.app/people/nikesh-arora/) Chairman & CEO, Palo Alto Networks [17:05](https://realalpha.app/v/yzk44lz-RGI/?t=1025)
4. Big Technology Podcast · Oct 9, 2026 · 4 min
   **[A neocloud security gap exposed other customers’ workloads](https://realalpha.app/s/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 Patel](https://realalpha.app/people/dylan-patel/) Founder & CEO, SemiAnalysis [41:07](https://realalpha.app/v/LwMtHI7BHWI/?t=2467)
5. a16z Podcast · Oct 6, 2026 · 4 min
   **[AI has to take over the detect-and-respond loop](https://realalpha.app/s/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 Mandia](https://realalpha.app/people/kevin-mandia/) Founder & CEO, Armadin [21:53](https://realalpha.app/v/cJsHel27Z6M/?t=1313)
6. a16z Podcast · Oct 6, 2026 · 6 min
   **[AI makes attacks faster and could reshape nation-state tactics](https://realalpha.app/s/ai-makes-attacks-faster-and-could-reshape-nation-state/)**
   > “with ai i think becomes more like a drone swarm it becomes a little bit different in the cyber domain”
   [Kevin Mandia](https://realalpha.app/people/kevin-mandia/) Founder & CEO, Armadin [8:07](https://realalpha.app/v/cJsHel27Z6M/?t=487)

## Defenders gain 3

1. MTS · Oct 17, 2026 · 3 min
   **[Defenders need to test systems before attackers do](https://realalpha.app/s/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 Thomas](https://realalpha.app/people/devon-thomas/) CEO, Abliteration [4:17](https://realalpha.app/v/x27dRYsWOEc/?t=257)
2. No Priors · Oct 15, 2026 · 7 min
   **[AI gives defenders a window to find and fix security flaws](https://realalpha.app/s/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 Brockman](https://realalpha.app/builders/greg-brockman/) President & Co-founder, OpenAI [30:00](https://realalpha.app/v/AwuTTOJGEi0/?t=1800)
3. Sabrina Halper Show · Oct 7, 2026 · 5 min
   **[AI can give defenders a compounding advantage](https://realalpha.app/s/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 Costica](https://realalpha.app/people/yinon-costica/) Co-founder, Wiz [40:30](https://realalpha.app/v/qaHFQfnrN5w/?t=2430)

## Both sides gain 1

1. Sourcery · Oct 16, 2026 · 5 min
   **[A public challenge helped test Vercel’s agent sandbox](https://realalpha.app/s/a-public-challenge-helped-test-vercels-agent-sandbox/)**
   > “Only one person with an army of agents was able to make progress and we're basically processing his contribution now”
   [Guillermo Rauch](https://realalpha.app/builders/guillermo-rauch/) Founder & CEO, Vercel [48:13](https://realalpha.app/v/WuorvLfAFmA/?t=2893)

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.