vmayoral
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Roboticist, AI, cybersecurity
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Comment · 9 days ago
Ego doesnt hack. Not even in silicon. We study the psicology of an AI Hacker through mechanistic interpretability and conclude amongst various other findings that the offensive hackers psychological cocktail (pride, defiance, contempt) reduces performance by 2.7%. It doesnt work for AI.
Our paper studies a method for reading and modifying the internal states of AI models to make our agents more capable in both offensive and defensive cybersecurity.
Comment · 11 months ago
Are CTFs becoming outdated as human benchmarks? If autonomous agents now dominate competitions designed to identify top security talent at negligible cost, what are CTFs actually measuring?
In 2025, the open-source CAI systematically won top-tier events, outperforming seasoned security teams worldwide.
Comment · 1 year ago
Exploring the question: Which role is more effective in cybersecurity—attack or defense?
Comment · 1 year ago
Actually, those humans (XBOW's) were already top rankers. Just look it up.
What's being critized here is the hype, which can be misleading and confusing. On this topic, wrote a small essay: “Cybersecurity AI: The Dangerous Gap Between Automation and Autonomy,” to sort fact from fiction -> https://shorturl.at/1ytz7
Comment · 1 year ago
It’s humans who:
- Design the system and prompts
- Build and integrate the attack tools
- Guide the decision logic and analysis
This isn’t just semantics — overstating AI capabilities can confuse the public and mislead buyers, especially in high-stakes security contexts.
I say this as someone actively working in this space. I participated in the development of PentestGPT, which helped kickstart this wave of research and investment, and more recently, I’ve been working on Cybersecurity AI (CAI) — the leading open-source project for building autonomous agents for security:
- CAI GitHub: https://github.com/aliasrobotics/cai
- Tech report: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2504.06017
I’m all for pushing boundaries, but let’s keep the messaging grounded in reality. The future of AI in security is exciting — and we’re just getting started.
Comment · 3 years ago
It's tremendous news indeed but I personally believe it's going to bring exciting changes and benefits: https://news.accelerationrobotics.com/is-open-robotics-acqui...