AI-Generated Zero-Day Vulnerabilities: Implications for Future Warfighting

6/8/26
AI & WAR
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Cybersecurity has long been viewed as a support function, largely focused on protecting military computer networks and information systems. This paradigm is now obsolete. As armed forces modernize through Artificial Intelligence (AI)-enabled platforms, autonomous systems, network-centric architectures, space assets, and digitally connected weapon systems, cybersecurity has evolved into a foundational layer of combat power. AI is now reshaping the character of warfare itself and is more consequential than ever in the machine-speed discovery and exploitation of software vulnerabilities.

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