# The Bank for International Settlements Says AI Can Cut a Bank's Patching Window to Minutes

The paper lands the same week Aztec credited AI-assisted auditing with finding a critical flaw in its own proving system, and the same week three frontier AI chief executives called for slowing development.

- Published: 2026-09-13T05:57:01.509Z
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The Bank for International Settlements published a paper arguing that advanced artificial intelligence has compressed the time banks have to fix a disclosed software flaw from weeks to minutes, and it calls for faster security decisions and…

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