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A thousand fewer paths to root

Finding and patching nearly a thousand kernel vulnerabilities autonomously demonstrates a major leap in the capability of AI agents for real-world cybersecurity and software maintenance.

OpenAI developed an autonomous pipeline to identify and validate security flaws in the Linux kernel. The system successfully found and generated patches for 948 local privilege-escalation vulnerabilities.

  • OpenAI
  • Linux

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