AI Hacking Skills Are Doubling Faster Than Anyone Expected — And the Benchmarks Just Broke
There’s a chart circulating in cybersecurity circles this week — the kind that makes seasoned professionals sit up straight and quietly close their laptop lids. The UK’s AI Security Institute just published data showing AI cyber capabilities have blown past every trend line they’ve drawn. The models aren’t just getting better at hacking. They’re getting better at hacking faster than we can measure. The Doubling Time That Keeps Shrinking AISI tracks “cyber time horizons” — how long and complex a cyberattack an AI can autonomously execute, benchmarked against human experts doing the same work. They’ve been fitting exponential curves to this data since late 2024. ...
