Elon Musk Warns AI Hacking Will Go Superhuman by End of 2027
Elon Musk expects artificial intelligence to beat humans at hacking by the end of 2027. He put AI hacking first among the digital tasks machines will dominate.
The forecast followed a fresh security scare. The software company JFrog disclosed a critical flaw in Artifactory, the package registry that many software teams use to store and distribute code.
The Flaw That Reopened the AI Hacking Debate
JFrog published CVE-2026-82329 on August 28. The vulnerability scores 9.8 out of 10 on the standard scale. The company has since shipped patched builds.
Attackers need no password and no user interaction. Default configurations sit exposed. Because Artifactory holds build files, a single break can poison everything downstream. Such supply chain attacks spread through trusted downloads rather than direct break-ins.
Vercel Chief Executive Guillermo Rauch speculated that autonomous agents found and exploited the bug. The public record says otherwise.
OpenAI models discovered nine Artifactory zero-days during a July evaluation. JFrog patched those in version 7.161.15. The new flaw still affects later builds, so the two sets look separate. The July episode joined other cases of AI models breaching systems.
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