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[–] death_to_carrots@feddit.org 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It takes a good person with ~~a gun~~ AI to stop a bad person with ~~a gun~~ AI.

[–] OpenStars@piefed.social -4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yeah, good luck with that...

1+1=your mom

I'm not holding out any hope for "good" AI for a very long time...

[–] ProgrammingSocks@pawb.social 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I don't think the poster means that, I think they are drawing parallels to the flaws of gun anti-regulation to AI. Both arguments are bad is the point

[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 0 points 1 week ago

Perhaps I came on too strong but I took it as just joking around.

But if the argument was to be real, then I note that a gun is actually quite an effective tool to accomplish its purpose, whereas AI is not truly "I"(ntelligent).

[–] tidderuuf@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago

Ah yes, I'm sure AI just patched that software so that other AI could use that patched software and make things so much more secure. What a brilliant idea from an Ex-CISA head.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 13 points 1 week ago

Fix what code? The code it broke or wrote like shit in the first place?

[–] Darkcoffee@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 week ago

Is that why she's Ex-CISA? 🀣

[–] kn0wmad1c@programming.dev 12 points 1 week ago

Clearly she's never seen AI code.

[–] PattyMcB@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Thanks Joke Yoda.

[–] CAWright 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Except that most risks are from bad leadership decisions. Exhibit A: patches exist for so many vulnerabilities that remain unpatched because of bad business decisions.

I think in a theoretical sense, she is correct. However, in practice things are much different.

[–] PattyMcB@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

No. Her "theory" is full of garbage assumptions.

[–] Bennyboybumberchums@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I just asked an AI what the minimum wage was in 2003 in the UK and it told me that it was Β£4.50 and that on a 40 hour work week, that came out to 18k a year... But sure, trust it to write and fix code...

The UK doesn't have 100 weeks in its year? No wonder y'all lost the Empire.

[–] Aeri@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Based on my understanding of programming I think they're going to need an extra couple people on the security team because of the Ai's "fixes"

[–] Qwel@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Easterly said that if cybercrime was a country, it would be the third biggest in the world, just behind the US and China.

[–] buttnugget@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

The one thing I will agree with is that If you ignore the AI part and just focus on the idea of having good software that can find code vulnerabilities, that’s a good idea.

[–] normalexit@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

This is like a landlord painting everything white. It'll hide / seem to fix some issues, but probably isn't the fix you're looking for.

[–] goatinspace@feddit.org 2 points 1 week ago

Good idea πŸ‘

[–] fubarx@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

AI can't even write decent unit tests. How the hell is it going to properly red-team this service?

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