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Ethan Mollick highlights AI attack and defense speeds outpacing human response
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Ethan Mollick calls a quoted report of PHP vulnerabilities a visible sign of warnings AI insiders have raised since at least the Mythos release about attack and defense accelerating at inhuman speeds while human systems must respond. The quoted author, @fiveoutofnine, says two critical PHP bugs allow unauthenticated code execution and that details leaked before a patch was available, affecting WordPress, MediaWiki, Magento, Joomla, and Laravel.
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Ethan Mollick pointed to a report of two critical PHP vulnerabilities as a sign that AI-driven attacks and defenses are accelerating beyond human response speeds. The author he quoted, @fiveoutofnine, said the bugs allow unauthenticated code execution, affect WordPress, MediaWiki, Magento, Joomla, and Laravel, and had their details leaked before a patch was available. Mollick connected the report to warnings he said AI insiders have raised since at least the Mythos release: attack and defense can move at inhuman speeds while human systems still have to respond.
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