[Discuss] With AI, 2, 000 Vulnerabilities per Linux kernel release

[Rich Pieri]

On Sat, 05 Sep 2026 12:07:28 +0000
"Randall Rose" <rrose at pobox.com> wrote:

> --Possibly there is some risk to the Linux kernel's viability, if the
> number of AI-detected CVEs continues to increase and either
> adversaries have access to better AI than kernel developers do or the
> rate of kernel developers' detection of CVEs by using public AI and
> other means outstrips kernel developers' capacity to fix them.

"Possibly" except the premise itself is demonstrably false. Just look
at the top kernel development organizations leaderboard: Intel, Red Hat
(IBM), AMD, Google, nVidia, Meta, Oracle. To name some. The biggest
companies behind Linux kernel development are also some of the biggest
names in frontier neural network models. And those which aren't have
direct access to those models. At WORST, Linux kernel development has
access to models only marginally behind the best China can bring to
bear, and that's not enough of an edge for Team LLM Apocalypse to win.

Talk to me when China develops the equivalent of a Culture Mind. Then
I'll panic.

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