Well, this was fun read. Discovering such a high-ranking critical exploit within a week by coupling experts with frontier models is an amazing new journey we're about to embark on.
Is it? It's an arms race between the "good guys / defenders" and "bad guys / attackers". Assuming both sides have access to the same tools, how is this going to make any difference? Their relative strength will stay the same.
What is actually different is that 1. anybody without tool access is out of the game, which includes security professionals from poorer backgrounds (for them it's not too amazing of a journey) and 2. the AI vendors get a constant stream of what's essentially an AI tax from everybody - so yeah, for them it's gonna be an amazing ride.
I mean really, given how AI is being marketed, what is the point of the internet going forward when all its contents are going to be ai slop anyhow? Just disconnect and run local models if all you are getting is slop anyhow. The original purpose of the internet is now dead. Real people communicating and sharing information with eachother? Ha! That is no longer valued.
In fact actual innovation might no longer be valued anymore. What is innovation but opening Pandora's box and potentially seeing a disruptive competitor take your slice of the federal reserves money print? Better to nip that in the bud and control all the devils we already know, from a pure sociopathic profitmaking standpoint, which seems to be a very dominant viewpoint among the people in charge of the worlds power structures right now.
(or if you tasked an AI to write that: how appropriate!)