Against the Tyranny of Optimization: On the Stability of Automated Republics
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The talk looks at how AI-driven automation in cybersecurity—including automated vulnerability discovery, AI-assisted defense/analysis, and the scaling effects on bug bounty programs—creates pressures from an emerging “tyranny of optimization.” It considers how efficiency-driven systems reshape labor, risk, and power and argues security professionals will be among the first to detect and need to respond to these societal and stability risks by helping guide technology toward more equitable outcomes.
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