Bitcoin Core changes security rules as AI makes finding code bugs dangerously easy
Developers merged a policy change that ends the months-long embargo for flaws a chatbot could rediscover, after a summer in which AI found hundreds of bitcoin bugs before the humans did.
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Summary
- Bitcoin Core will quickly disclose and patch vulnerabilities that can be found with a simple prompt to an artificial intelligence model, replacing embargoes that could last about a year.
- Maintainers said the change would speed fixes for easily rediscovered flaws, though updates may receive less testing before reaching users.
- The policy follows a surge in AI-assisted security reports, including a review of 390 Bitcoin projects that identified 4,962 potential flaws, 85 of them critical.
