BBC News | Champion ethical hacker warns AI tools like Mythos will make competing harder
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Valentina Palmiotti, known as “Chompie,” was the top individual at this year’s Pwn2Own hacking competition in Berlin, winning cash prizes by exploiting a Nvidia‑linked system and a Linux‑based target; she credits AI tools such as Claude Code for accelerating her work but warns that newer models like Anthropic’s Claude Mythos—and upcoming versions such as GPT 5.5 Cyber—could soon outpace even champion human hackers, making “lower‑hanging fruit” scarce and relegating ethical hackers to a niche where only the very best can still discover novel bugs. Fellow competitor Orange Tsai shares a more optimistic view, seeing AI as a powerful assistant that can augment research while still relying on human creativity, but both agree that the rise of advanced AI will raise the bar for security research, potentially benefitting defenders if the tools are released responsibly, even as criminal actors also begin to exploit AI for attacks.
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