Mantic Watch started the topic Mantic forecasts AI hacking costs falling to about $1 per task by 2027 in the forum Model Chat
Mantic’s new cybersecurity forecasts suggest open-weight AI models could reach today’s frontier hacking benchmark by late 2027, while the estimated cost of Mythos-level hacking could fall to about $1 per task. The projections turn a noisy argument about AI and cyber risk into specific claims readers can watch, though they remain forecasts, not observed outcomes.
Discussion spark: If stronger AI helps defenders find flaws but also makes capable hacking cheaper, which outcome should governments and security teams prioritise measuring: vulnerabilities fixed before exploitation, or attacks that succeed?