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Researchers make the case for a cybersecurity AI scientist

A team at the Chinese Academy of Sciences has proposed a Cybersecurity AI Scientist, an autonomous AI agent designed to automate security research, addressing the slow, manual nature of current security research. The concept aims to close the gap between automated security operations and research by leveraging language models to design and run experiments.

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Autonomous AI agents have started doing real security work. Language-model agents probe software for flaws, run penetration tests, and chain together attack steps that once needed a human operator. Research about security has stayed slower and more manual, built around expert scarcity and hand-designed experiments. A team at the Chinese Academy of Sciences wants to close that gap. In a recent paper, they define what they term the Cybersecurity AI Scientist. They describe a research … More

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