What is the 'dual use' problem in AI cybersecurity tools?
Dual use means the same AI capability that finds and patches a software vulnerability can, in reverse, find and exploit that same vulnerability. Reports suggest there is no clean technical way to build a model that only defends and never attacks — the underlying skill is identical.
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