According to CoinDesk, Bitcoin Core developers merged a policy change that ends the months-long embargo previously applied to flaws that could be rediscovered by a chatbot. The change follows a summer period in which artificial intelligence tools identified hundreds of Bitcoin core code bugs before human reviewers had done so.
The embargo required that discovered vulnerabilities remain unpublished and internally tracked for several months to allow fixes before public disclosure. Under the new policy, such flaws will no longer be subject to this delay; they can be reported and addressed more directly upon identification by any means, including automated AI analysis.
The shift reflects increased reliance on AI in routine code review within the Bitcoin Core development process. Developers indicated the change aims to reduce time between detection and resolution of security issues, acknowledging that AI can now find bugs in one prompt or query under certain conditions.
