Security News > 2020 > June > Carbon-based vuln hunters will always be better at infosec than AI, insist puny humans

Puny humans still think they're superior to AI when it comes to infosec - and a significant number still don't venture into meatspace or get enough sunlight.

So reckons a survey carried out on behalf of Bugcrowd, which also made the edifying finding that 64 per cent of independent infosec researchers are on median incomes below $25,000/year - with half being aged 24 or younger.

While it referred to them throughout as "Hackers", it meant both infosec researchers and pentesters who claim bug bounties through its platform - the people whose work helps thwart criminal hackers with bad intentions.

"Hackers will always be one step ahead of AI when it comes to cybersecurity because humans are not confined by the logical limitations of machine intelligence," said Jasmin Landry, top-ranked Bugcrowd hacker.

Hackers can adapt four to five low-impact bugs to exploit a single high-impact attack vector that AI would likely miss without the creative flexibility of human decision-making."

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