{"id":197061,"date":"2026-03-17T18:35:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T22:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/17\/ai-outperforms-99-of-human-hackers-in-global-cyber-games\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T13:15:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T17:15:20","slug":"ai-outperforms-99-of-human-hackers-in-global-cyber-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/17\/ai-outperforms-99-of-human-hackers-in-global-cyber-games\/","title":{"rendered":"AI Outperforms 99% Of Human Hackers In Global Cyber Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com.au\/news\/innovation\/ai-outperforms-99-of-human-hackers-in-global-cyber-games\/\">AI Outperforms 99% Of Human Hackers In Global Cyber Games<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com.au\/news\/innovation\/ai-outperforms-99-of-human-hackers-in-global-cyber-games\/\">https:\/\/www.forbes.com.au\/news\/innovation\/ai-outperforms-99-of-human-hackers-in-global-cyber-games\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-17 18:35:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.forbes.com.au\">www.forbes.com.au<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>An Israeli cybersecurity startup, Tenzai, has demonstrated an AI hacking agent that outperformed 99% of 125,000 human competitors in a series of six hacking competitions.<\/li>\n<li>Tenzai&#8217;s AI, built using tools from OpenAI and Anthropic, excelled in various hacking challenges, including difficult tasks designed to exploit security vulnerabilities.<\/li>\n<li>Tenzai&#8217;s success raises regulatory concerns as the technology becomes cheaper and accessible, potentially lowering the barrier to conducting cyberattacks.<\/li>\n<li>The affordability of deploying such AI, costing only $5,000 for Tenzai&#8217;s AI models, poses a threat if misused by malicious actors or less savory actors.<\/li>\n<li>Tenzai\u2019s cofounder and CEO, Pavel Gurvich, advocates for regulating the sale of powerful AI hacking models to limit their misuse by individuals who may not have good intentions.<\/li>\n<li>While AI now plays a critical role in hacking with the potential for significant impact, Tenzai&#8217;s AI never reached the top spot, indicating that top human hackers still outperform AI in these competitions.<\/li>\n<li>This advancement signifies that AI-driven offensive security is moving from being theoretical to practical, impacting cybersecurity strategies globally.<\/li>\n<li>Other AI hacking ventures have also shown promise, such as Anthropic&#8217;s Claude, which has found numerous high-severity vulnerabilities in open-source software.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AI Outperforms 99% Of Human Hackers In Global Cyber Games https:\/\/www.forbes.com.au\/news\/innovation\/ai-outperforms-99-of-human-hackers-in-global-cyber-games\/ Publish Date: 2026-03-17 18:35:00&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":197062,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.forbes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1960x0.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197061"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197061"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":197063,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197061\/revisions\/197063"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}