'AI is not creating the problem': OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says AI is merely uncovering all the vulnerabilities we've accumulated over the years

Date:
Sun, 01 Nov 2026 16:05:00 +0000

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Oracle claims it fixed around 3,000 software issues in its latest quarterly patch AI helped discover them, but they already existed.

FULL STORY ======================================================================Copy link Facebook X Whatsapp Reddit Pinterest Flipboard Threads Email Share this article 0 Join the conversation Follow us Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter Sam Altman says AI isn't creating security vulnerabilities it's just helping us discover them far
more quickly Attackers are also finding and exploiting them just as quickly
AI Security Mesh helps you explore fixes at a faster pace "AI is helping us discover all of the security issues that we have developed over the past
fifty years," co-CEO Clay Magouyrk worked into a conversation on-stage with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, clearly laboring the point that artificial
intelligence is actually helping us to identify existing vulnerabilities.

This comes against a backdrop of what could only be described as an onslaught of AI-assisted bug patches companies are now patching at rates we've never seen before. Oracle's own quarterly patch update recently addressed no fewer than around 3,000 issues, most of which were only identified thanks to AI. With this in mind, Oracle is now helping businesses identify vulnerabilities, investigate exploits before they happen and research fixes through a new partnership with OpenAI. Latest Videos From TechRadar Watch full video here: AI is uncovering thousands of existing vulnerabilities With the new Oracle AI Security Mesh feature, businesses will be able to see supporting evidence
like reproduction steps and test results to help them rule out false
positives and to prioritize the biggest threats.

During the conversation with Magouyrk on stage, Altman implied that
businesses may eventually need to reconsider their security strategies from the ground up, moving beyond fixing individual bugs toward continuous monitoring which could spell out potential security team restructuring as AI continues to have an impact on job roles. You may like In open source cybersecurity, AI is kind of a problem but it can also be a solution 'It is possible that threat actors are finding it more accessible or efficient to
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OpenAI Head of Cyber Johannes Landgraf explained the threat: "Frontier AI is creating new opportunities to help organizations identify and respond to increasingly sophisticated security threats."

The biggest worry is that while AI can significantly speed up vulnerability discovery, it's also helping attackers exploit them at that same rate. Are
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"It's maybe too hard to patch every bug one by one across the entire supply chain," Sam Altman said. "I think we'll need new ways to fix them."

For many businesses until now, one of the biggest challenges has actually
been getting fixes out of the door quickly enough. The hope is that now, AI Security Mesh can equip businesses with the upper hand to respond as quickly as possible to newly discovered threats. Follow TechRadar on Google News and add us as a preferred source to get our expert news, reviews, and opinion in your feeds.



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