Lemkin: Cybersecurity will worsen during a transitional phase as AI accelerates hacking
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Jason Lemkin is a SaaS investor. He predicts a wave of security breaches as AI tools lower the barrier for software creation while empowering automated hacking.
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“As most databases are now built by AI, as more and more apps are built by AI the number of issues is going to explode, and if Mythos and Friends lets bad actors find every site the second it launches with any PAI and steal it, I think we may enter an era later where sites get more secure as it's flipped on the other side, but I think we're going to go through a transition phase where security's just getting worse and worse and worse because every single website can be instantly hacked and stolen from it.”
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