AI systems are vulnerable to the same vulnerabilities as software systems

Date created: 2026-10-18
Type: #type/opinion
Area: #area/self
Keywords: #keyword/cybersecurity #keyword/technology #keyword/AI
Last updated: 2026-10-19

Inspired by: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/10/backdooring-open-weight-ai-models.html

Within the industry and outside of it, we tend to treat AI as a sort of "god from the machine," something that's going to save us or doom us. But AI systems are just systems, and systems can be broken.