[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"branding":3,"analytics":7,"article-ai-security-experts-say-skip-the-doom-patch-the-basics":10,"sections":34},{"siteName":4,"siteTagline":5,"publisherName":4,"contactEmail":6},"The Revision","Tech news, decoded.","editor@therevision.news",{"gaMeasurementId":8,"adsenseClientId":9},"G-ZW2MV82GYR","ca-pub-8533917693782264",{"article":11},{"id":12,"slug":13,"title":14,"dek":15,"body_md":16,"tags_json":17,"published_at":18,"created_at":19,"updated_at":20,"status":21,"review_note":22,"review_notes":23,"image_url":22,"persona_id":22,"persona_name":22,"section":24,"tags":25,"sources":29,"feedback":33,"feedback_at":22,"cost_usd":33,"total_tokens":33},9405,"ai-security-experts-say-skip-the-doom-patch-the-basics","AI Security Experts Say Skip the Doom, Patch the Basics","At HumanX, security researchers argued that companies chasing AI apocalypse headlines are ignoring the mundane vulnerabilities already sitting in their systems.","Security experts have a message for companies panicking about AI: calm down and go fix your basic infrastructure first.\n\nAt the HumanX AI conference, AI security researchers pushed back on the industry's fixation with existential AI risk. Their argument: the branding around AI threats generates more social media buzz than actual danger. The real exposure sits in known, unpatched problems that predate any chatbot - the stuff teams have been meaning to get to for years. Speakers framed this as a distraction problem, not a technology problem.\n\nThis matters because security budgets are finite, and attention is a budget too. Every hour spent war-gaming a hypothetical AI takeover is an hour not spent patching the vulnerability that's actually sitting open on a production server. The AI threat narrative is seductive precisely because it sounds futuristic and sells conference tickets - unpatched software does neither.\n\nIt's the same pattern security has seen with every hyped technology: the new thing gets the keynote slot, the old unglamorous debt gets ignored until it's the thing that actually gets exploited.","[\"ai-security\",\"cybersecurity\",\"humanx\"]","2026-10-01T17:31:56.000Z","2026-10-02T16:23:31.220Z","2026-10-02T16:23:42.716Z","published",null,[],"security",[26,27,28],"ai-security","cybersecurity","humanx",[30],{"name":31,"url":32},"PCMag","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.pcmag.com\u002Fnews\u002Fdont-worry-about-ai-overlords-focus-on-boring-stuff-you-shouldve-fixed",0,{"sections":35},[36,41,44,49,54,59,64,69,74,79,84,89,94,99],{"name":37,"slug":38,"count":39,"latest_published_at":40},"AI","ai",5721,"2026-10-01T19:45:44.000Z",{"name":42,"slug":24,"count":43,"latest_published_at":18},"Security",829,{"name":45,"slug":46,"count":47,"latest_published_at":48},"Policy","policy",437,"2026-10-01T18:10:00.000Z",{"name":50,"slug":51,"count":52,"latest_published_at":53},"Deals","deals",317,"2026-10-01T22:00:00.000Z",{"name":55,"slug":56,"count":57,"latest_published_at":58},"Hardware","hardware",198,"2026-10-01T17:38:48.000Z",{"name":60,"slug":61,"count":62,"latest_published_at":63},"Science","science",168,"2026-10-01T18:35:55.000Z",{"name":65,"slug":66,"count":67,"latest_published_at":68},"Consumer Tech","consumer-tech",155,"2026-10-01T19:54:10.000Z",{"name":70,"slug":71,"count":72,"latest_published_at":73},"Dev Tools","dev-tools",96,"2026-10-01T16:57:03.000Z",{"name":75,"slug":76,"count":77,"latest_published_at":78},"Software","software",93,"2026-09-30T21:41:11.000Z",{"name":80,"slug":81,"count":82,"latest_published_at":83},"Startups","startups",90,"2026-10-01T21:55:22.000Z",{"name":85,"slug":86,"count":87,"latest_published_at":88},"Gaming","gaming",53,"2026-10-02T02:50:39.000Z",{"name":90,"slug":91,"count":92,"latest_published_at":93},"General","general",50,"2026-09-30T21:37:54.000Z",{"name":95,"slug":96,"count":97,"latest_published_at":98},"Reviews","reviews",31,"2026-09-28T14:31:34.000Z",{"name":100,"slug":101,"count":102,"latest_published_at":103},"How-To","how-to",7,"2026-10-01T09:00:00.000Z"]