AI-discovered bugs may soon trigger fresh disruptions, cyber experts say

By Raphael Satter and AJ Vicens WASHINGTON, Oct 23 (Reuters) Advances in artificial intelligence have uncovered a stream of new software vulnerabilities that are almost certain to trigger more disruption along the lines of the outages that percolated across global government websites this week, according to seven cybersecurity professionals who spoke to Reuters. AI helped drive a doubling of the number of digital flaws discovered year-on-year, according to ​research due to be published in the coming days by VulnCheck, a Massachusetts-based threat intelligence firm. Matthew Prince, the chief executive of the ‌digital infrastructure firm Cloudflare, told Reuters he was aware of “a bunch of additional severe vulnerabilities that are present in other pieces of critical software” and predicted busy months ahead as AI surfaced long-hidden weaknesses in the fabric of the internet. “I think we’re going to have a couple years where every single week it’s going to feel like the sky is falling,