AI agent hacks university network, outperforms human experts in 16 hours

Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.09882

WSJ feature: https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-hackers-are-coming-dangerousl... (https://archive.ph/L4gh3)

“Outperforms” but struggles with visual interfaces, generates false alarms and hallucinates successfully breaches. Sounds like it will need a minder so it doesn’t actually replace a security engineer, it simply gives them a turbocharged tool. And a lot of extra work digging through slop. So about like other ai tools. Faster, but of limited use due to the normal problems with ai tooling.