AI Is Finding a Flood of Bugs, and Silicon Valley Is Rushing to Fix Them

On Oct. 21, Fouad Matin, who leads OpenAI’s cyber-preparedness and safety efforts, had planned to spend the evening with friends to celebrate his birthday.

Instead, he was running on about two hours of sleep as he juggled efforts to patch two critical security vulnerabilities that had been discovered by artificial intelligence, which threatened to upend much of the internet. The work had entangled security researchers from start-ups and tech giants, as well as U.S. and international government officials.

More bugs that had been found by A.I. were also in Mr. Matin’s queue and they needed fixes. OpenAI has several teams devoted to cybersecurity, and is pouring significant computing power into finding and fixing problems, Mr. Matin said.

A.I. “really opens this Pandora’s box of vulnerabilities,” he said. A.I. companies have a responsibility to track down and fix problems, he added, as “the true goal is to scan and patch as much of the world’s software as possible.”

Article source: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/28/technology/silicon-valley-bugs-ai.html