> It’s fair to ask if the harm they cause is worth the good they do.

Researcher disclosures, even with POCs, have moved the industry to action incumbents would have rather buried. I’m thinking of CPU and memory exploits, and stuff like log4j, as examples.

Frontier AI is enabling the cyber arms race more than anything past, and certainly more than some bot slowly crawling web servers for old vulnerabilities.

If we’re talking harm, it should be in the broader context of internet history, imo.