The Orchard Bug and the Unfolding Cybersecurity Reckoning

Ben Goertzel argues that the Zcash Orchard bug, which allowed potential counterfeit ZEC creation and was undetected for four years until an AI model (Anthropic's Opus 4.8) found it, is an early tremor of a coming wave where AI will expose latent vulnerabilities across all software, from crypto to traditional finance. He contends the solution is well-known—formal verification and "correct-by-construction" derivation from mathematical specifications, as being implemented in the ASI:chain project—but the software industry has avoided it due to cost and speed pressures. Goertzel concludes that the same AI capabilities driving this reckoning can also enable large-scale formal verification, making the threat and remedy essentially the same technology, and urges a broad shift toward making mathematical proof the default expectation in software development. 

https://bengoertzel.substack.com/p/the-orchard-bug-and-the-unfolding