Subj : OpenAI wants your next security researcher to be a bot - new Aard
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From : TechnologyDaily
Date : Mon Nov 03 2025 18:30:08

OpenAI wants your next security researcher to be a bot - new Aardvark tool 
finds and fixes software flaws automatically

Date:
Mon, 03 Nov 2025 18:28:00 +0000

Description:
OpenAI boasts a 92% success rate with its new security bot service.

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unveils Aardvark, an autonomous AI agent for scalable vulnerability detection 
and patching Aardvark mimics human researchers: reads code, runs tests, and 
proposes targeted security fixes In benchmark tests, Aardvark achieved a 92% 
success rate on known vulnerable repositories 

OpenAI wants your next security researcher to be a bot - and has launched 
Aardvark , its very own agentic security researcher, powered by ChatGPT. 

Now in private beta, the company describes Aardvark as a breakthrough in AI 
and security research - an autonomous agent which helps developers and 
security teams discover and fix security flaws at scale. 

Each year, tens of thousands of new vulnerabilities are discovered across 
enterprise and open-source codebases, the company said. Defenders face the 
daunting tasks of finding and patching vulnerabilities before their 
adversaries do. Mimicking human behavior 

In benchmark testing on so-called golden repositories (those that contain 
well-documented vulnerabilities and are used for testing), Aardvark has 
apparently had a 92% success rate. 

Detailing how it works, OpenAI said Aardvark is not unlike a human - but 
without the need to rest, eat, use the toilet, or an occasional emotional 
breakdown. 

Aardvark looks for bugs as a human security researcher might: by reading 
code, analyzing it, writing and running tests, using tools, and more, it 
said. By continuously analyzing source code repositories, it can identify 
vulnerabilities, assess exploitability, prioritize severity, and then propose 
targeted patches. 

While the company stresses the tool is still in beta, it also says its 
already showing commendable results. OpenAI has been running it internally 
for several months across its codebases and those of external alpha partners, 
and managed to surface meaningful vulnerabilities which contributed to 
OpenAIs defensive posture. 

An AI agent is an autonomous AI program that connects to other apps to 
perform various tasks automatically. Their popularity has been growing 
lately, with different agents being built for different purposes, such as the 
AI coding agent Zencoder, the Instagram analysis agent (built on Apify), 
Compuser (an AI that uses the computer), and others. 

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