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On October 22, 2026, Ethan Mollick offered a judgment, saying that AI attack and defense are accelerating at non-human speed and interacting with human systems that need to respond. He reposted a post summarizing multiple security incidents of the day, calling it a visible sign of the phenomenon that people in the AI circle have been warning about since the release of Mythos. The reposted post listed events including two critical vulnerabilities in PHP allowing remote code execution without login, a CVSS 10.0 vulnerability in GitLab, LiteLLM 1.107.0 being hijacked to implant a credential stealer and remote access trojan, Railway suspending all deployments, and TiDB Cloud being breached. Currently this judgment was published by Mollick himself, and there are no subsequent independent developments of fact.
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Ethan Mollick: AI attack-defense acceleration is creating a gap with human response systems
Ethan Mollick reposted a post summarizing multiple security incidents of the day, calling it a visible sign of the phenomenon that people in the AI circle have been warning about since the release of Mythos. He believes that attack and defense are accelerating at non-human speed and interacting with human systems that need to respond. The reposted post listed events including two critical PHP vulnerabilities that allow unauthenticated remote code execution, a GitLab vulnerability with a CVSS score of 10.0, LiteLLM 1.107.0 being hijacked to implant a credential stealer and a remote access trojan, Railway suspending all deployments, and TiDB Cloud being breached.