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Bitcoin Core changes security rules as AI makes finding code bugs dangerously easy

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Bitcoin Core merged a policy allowing developers to merge code flaws discovered by AI chatbots, ending a security embargo that had been in place for months. This change occurred after AI identified hundreds of potential bugs during a summer period, significantly reducing the time required for human developers to find and fix them.

Key points

• Developers merged a policy allowing code flaws discovered by AI chatbots to be merged into Bitcoin Core, ending a security embargo that had been in place for months.
• AI identified hundreds of potential bugs during a summer period, which was significantly faster than the previous months-long process where humans were required to find and fix them.

Context

This change represents a major shift in Bitcoin security, as AI now assists in finding critical code bugs much faster than human developers, potentially reducing the time to fix vulnerabilities.

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Evidence is limited to a single policy change and the summer period when AI found bugs. No specific dates for the policy implementation are provided, and the article does not contain quotes or causal claims about the impact of this change.

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