Champion ethical hacker warns AI tools like Mythos could put her out of business
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Champion ethical hacker Valentina Palmiotti warns that powerful AI tools like Claude Mythos (an AI model that can find vulnerabilities, or security weaknesses, in software) could soon make human hackers like her unable to compete in bug bounty competitions (where hackers earn money by finding security flaws before criminals do). While she currently uses AI tools like Claude Code to work faster and win prizes at the Pwn2Own hacking competition, she believes advanced AI models will eventually take over most of the easier hacking tasks, leaving only the very best human hackers with opportunities to find new bugs.
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Original source: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3r2zjpryzro?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=rss
First tracked: May 27, 2026 at 02:00 AM
Classified by LLM (prompt v3) · confidence: 85%