TheoryTHY-2026-0206v0.1

AI build–attack asymmetry (hypothesis)

AI lowers the cost of building something that works faster than the cost of building something secure, and may lower the cost of finding weak targets. The hypothesis is narrow and does not claim that current AI is a universal attacker.

Research status: PRELIMINARY a first formalisation or observation exists
Evidence level: E0 Concept only
Data basis: THEORY Theoretical reasoning only; no measurement.
Version: 0.1
Updated: 2026-10-13
Created: 2026-09-21
Domain: Privacy
Program: PRG-2026-0201 AI Agent Publication Boundary and Security Closure (APBSC)
Authors: Neo.K (EveMissLab)
AI collaborators: AI collaboration recorded for the series; the collaborator is not named in the drafts, Splice (Claude Code, Anthropic) — Phase II protocols, runners, audits, reports and the integrated edition

Recorded fields

tags: paper 05

Relations

Source	Relation	Target	Status	ID
`THY-2026-0206` AI build–attack asymmetry (hypothesis)	`contains`	`CLM-2026-0205` H5 — AI-assisted building grows low-maturity targets faster than defensive automation shrinks them	`ACTIVE`	`REL-2026-0516`
`RES-2026-0201` Why passing checks does not close the publication boundary	`develops`	`THY-2026-0206` AI build–attack asymmetry (hypothesis)	`ACTIVE`	`REL-2026-0509`
`PAP-2026-0206` Paper 05 — AI build–attack asymmetry	`formalizes`	`THY-2026-0206` AI build–attack asymmetry (hypothesis)	`ACTIVE`	`REL-2026-0537`

History and provenance

Canonical URL

https://evemisslab.com/ai/theory/THY-2026-0206/

Machine-readable

/ai/theory/THY-2026-0206/index.json

Snapshot

AI-SNAPSHOT-v0.1-58e716495670

Provenance

source: EveMissLab research collection: AI Agent Publication Boundary and Security Closure (真本體論14)
extracted_by: Splice (Claude Code), reading the open-source release's own manifests, locks and pooled outputs, and the hashes of the internal drafts
extracted_at: 2026-10-13
generator: tools/extract_all.py
claim_boundary: status, evidence level and result type follow the source artifact's own stated claim boundary; nothing is upgraded beyond what the report supports