Cybersecurity & Cryptography · Recorded milestone
AI finds and fixes zero-days
Recorded year2025
AI agents find and patch real software flaws, as in Google's Big Sleep and DARPA's AI Cyber Challenge final in 2025.
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Led to
- AI-run cyber espionage campaignRecorded · 2025enables
- First rogue AI agent swarmRecorded · 2026enables
- Legacy code made memory-safe by AIForecast · ~2028enables
- Self-maintaining softwareForecast · ~2030enables
- Automated cyber conflictForecast · ~2032enables
- Verified AI arms controlForecast · ~2050enables
Sources & evidence
Dataset updated 2026-10-18. This individual record has not been separately re-reviewed.