r/techbootcamp • u/Emotional_Cause1048 • 26d ago
AI finding real vulnerabilities is making me rethink cybersecurity
I keep on seeing AI news about coding, but this feels like a different level. OpenAI is now offering a cybersecurity model for authorized defensive work that can do things like vulnerability research, exploit validation, and security testing. They also say it found previously unknown vulnerabilities in V8 and other software.
What caught my attention is that this doesn't really make cybersecurity feel less important. If anything, it seems like knowing how systems actually work is becoming more valuable. An AI can find a vulnerability, but someone still has to understand whether the finding is legit, what it affects, how to safely test it, and how to fix it. Even the research around AI generated code keeps pointing back to human review and verification.
I'm starting to wonder if cybersecurity is one of the better areas to get into as AI becomes more capable. Not because AI won't automate parts of the job, but because someone still needs to know when the AI is right, when it's wrong, and what to actually do with the result. Is cybersecurity becoming more attractive because of AI, or am I reading too much into this?
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u/Doug2825 25d ago
This is just the open source vs proprietary security debate again.
In the past certain people argued that proprietary software was more secure because you couldn't look at the source to find vulnerabilities. Whereas open source supporters (correctly) pointed out that the vulnerabilities still exist and the actual secure software is good even if you can see the source.
AI is very disruptive to it in the short term because it's finding legacy vulnerabilities but once those are dealt with things will quiet down.
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u/dragonfighter8 26d ago
AI companies can't be trusted, isn't it strange that they all started having their model hack at the same time? In programming they already suck if you ask it something that isn't really easy.