Cybersecurity Panic, Nationalizing AI, The Model Squeeze & Can't Own Anything

AI lowered the cost of exploiting known bugs rather than inventing new attacks, and labs may only get nationalized after a capex bubble bursts.

• PHP exploit cascade: A 2004-known PHP bug was weaponized by OpenAI's GPT-5-class model (found independently by three parties); Cloudflare saw exploit attempts go from a few hundred/hour pre-disclosure to millions/hour after.
• Economic barrier, not capability, was the gate: Haseeb argues AI didn't invent new attacks—it made exploiting known-but-impractical bugs cheap, a pattern crypto already lived through (2025 is an all-time high year for on-chain hack count, not dollar value).

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