You Don't Need A Frontier Model to Find Zero Days
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Niels Provos discusses the orchestration problem in finding zero days and critiques the panic surrounding AI and vulnerabilities.
Niels Provos on why you don't need a frontier model to find zero days, why the Vulnpocalypse is overstated, and how security invariants change the game. Description Niels Provos has spent twenty-five years in security, from writing bcrypt to running security at Google and Stripe, and he came on to push back on the panic around AI and vulnerabilities. He explains why finding zero days is an orchestration problem rather than a frontier-model problem, using his Iron Curtain runtime and an open-w...
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