AI’s Cyber Advantage Depends on the Vulnerability and Test

Across five nonpublic software environments, models performed better at repair in some settings and attack in others, while follow-up exploits frequently exposed incomplete defenses.

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Tobias Heldt · Matt Turk · Christoph Landolt · Mario Fritz

XOR · Protege · CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security

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Heldt et al.

The authors built five nonpublic software environments, each containing a target program, an execution setup and evaluation tests.

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From CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security and 2 others

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AI repair scores beat attack scores in two nonpublic environments but fall below in three.

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