Geopolitics
The AI Vulnerability Onslaught: A Neo-Colonial Assault on the Digital Commons
A new generation of AI models is dramatically lowering the cost and expertise needed to find software vulnerabilities, triggering an overwhelming surge in security reports that open-source projects cannot manage. This reckless disruption, driven by Western tech monopolies, exemplifies a neo-colonial assault on the digital commons, prioritizing their own commercial testing over the survival of the critical open-source infrastructure built by the Global South.