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Linux head says “AI tools are great” but they’re making the security list “almost entirely unmanageable”<\/a><\/p>\n

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Publish Date: 2026-05-18 04:55:00<\/a><\/p>\n

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While announcing the fourth release candidate for Linux kernel 7.1, Linux head Linus Torvalds had some interesting words to say about AI.<\/p>\n

Torvalds appears to be quite a fan of AI, and we’ve seen a recent wave of security issues affecting the Linux kernel to the point that they’re getting a bit spammed by people using various AI tools to track down issues – often issues that have already been reported.<\/p>\n

Here’s what Torvalds had to say:<\/p>\n

You all know the drill by now – another week, another release candidate.<\/p>\n

Things continue to look fairly normal (where “normal” is the “new normal” with a fair amount of changes). Drivers are about half the patch, with GPU leading the way as is tradition. But there’s a little bit of everything in driver land.<\/p>\n

The rest is mostly networking, core kernel, filesystems, and arch updates.<\/p>\n

Some of the documentation updates might be worth highlighting: the continued flood of AI reports has basically made the security list almost entirely unmanageable, with enormous duplication due to different people finding the same things with the same tools. People spend all their time just forwarding things to the right people or saying “that was already fixed a week\/month ago” and pointing to the public discussion.<\/p>\n

Which is all entirely pointless churn, and we’re making it clear that AI detected bugs are pretty much by definition not secret, and treating them on some private list is a waste of time for everybody involved – and only makes that duplication worse because the reporters can’t even see each other’s reports.<\/p>\n

AI tools are great, but only if they actually help, rather than cause unnecessary pain and pointless make-believe work. Feel free to use them, but use them in a way that is productive and makes for a better experience.<\/p>\n

The documentation may be a bit less blunt than I am, but that’s the core gist of it. So just to make it really clear: if you found a bug using AI tools, the chances are somebody else found it too. If you…<\/p>\n

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