It seems like every day a new, potentially internet-shattering cybersecurity issue is discovered or exploited by artificial intelligence. It’s gotten bad enough that even OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, one of the people who is most responsible for pushing AI development forward despite the risks, now believes that simply patching the problems is no longer a viable option.

During an appearance at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, Altman told a group of grad students that the cybersecurity crisis is worse than anyone could imagine. “I no longer think we’re going to be able to just patch all the bugs,” he told the audience, in part due to the ongoing advancements of AI models and in part because the targets of cyber attacks have acted too slowly to get ahead of it.

“This cybersecurity…I don’t even know a dramatic enough word to use, but the problem coming towards us, I think, is still something that we have not, as organizational leaders or countries or individuals, taken seriously,” he said.

Altman pointed to the freakout when Anthropic announced its Claude Mythos model with the ominous warning that it can’t be made public because it is simply too powerful and could lead to the undoing of cybersecurity as we know it. “People definitely patched some bugs, but it was another one of these cases where people didn’t really intuit the exponential.”

Basically, Altman suggested that the organizations that did take action just patched up the problems that AI models were able to find and called it a day, as if no other future bugs or exploits would be found.

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