Editorial: Fears of an AI cyber apocalypse are a bit premature

Each day seems to bring fresh havoc in the digital world. In recent weeks, researchers have uncovered security flaws in some of the most consequential corners of the internet, bugs that could put users at risk, jeopardize essential services and impose significant economic costs. Squint a little, though, and it looks like progress. In August, researchers found flaws in the PHP programming language — which underpins roughly 70% of the world’s websites — that could’ve allowed hackers to steal data or install malware on a huge scale, prompting a warning from the National Security Agency and a global effort to patch the bug. Other flaws have recently been found in systems ranging from Linux to OpenSSL to FreeBSD. Nor are these isolated incidents.

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