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Ilia Shumailov: belief

4 Oct 2025 Machine Learning Street Talk AI Agents Can Code 10,000 Lines of Hacking Tools In Seconds - Dr. Ilia Shumailov (ex-GDM)

“I I get a job or whatever. But, actually, on the other side, I have to say, I think the true ingenuity is in people who solve problems, because this is something that you're not gonna get a flashy article out of this.”

— Ilia Shumailov

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Speaker
Ilia Shumailov
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Claim type
belief
Recorded
4 Oct 2025
Publisher
Machine Learning Street Talk

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…various things. Right? I I have to say, I think this is 1 of this thing in academia that it's I think in academia, you get famous for breaking stuff and kind of like the incentives are a little bit skewed for you to make a, like, a flashy announcement. Oh, I broke into this big company thus. I'm I'm pretty cool. Right? I I get a job or whatever. But, actually, on the other side, I have to say, I think the true ingenuity is in people who solve problems, because this is something that you're not gonna get a flashy article out of this. Right. It's just people who spend infinite amount of hours trying to fix the thing that you show 1 instance of something going badly, and then they need to fix all of them. And I think this is the true ingenuity. And and this is why I kinda shift my gears now to more building defenses because I feel this is not getting enough attention. We really need to solve this problem. We really need to unlock a mass amount of these applications. And, unfortunately, I think the incentives in academia are a little bit screwed. They are more after flashy articles rather than unlocking technology. And yeah. So this is why I really wanna, like, build more defensive tooling. And Good for you. Thank you.…

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