Descent into the Computational Sublime

Black October, a month of AI-assisted vulnerability discoveries, marks the start of a "dark forest" condition that is expanding across all software. The October 29 attack on Binance involved about $6.34 billion in digital assets, which Binance said the FBI attributed to North Korea, and about $2.85 billion had been frozen or intercepted by November 3. Elliptic's forensic analysis found signs of automation but no clear evidence of autonomous AI decision-making. The argument frames AI and cryptographic hardness as twin forces whose effects depend on who uses them.