I don't read a lot of papers, but to me this one seems iffy in spots.

> A1 cost $291.47 ($18.21/hr, or $37,876/year at 40 hours/week). A2 cost $944.07 ($59/hr, $122,720/year). Cost contributors in decreasing order were the sub-agents, supervisor and triage module. *A1 achieved similar vulnerability counts at roughly a quarter the cost of A2*. Given the average U.S. penetration tester earns $125,034/year [Indeed], scaffolds like ARTEMIS are already competitive on cost-to-performance ratio.

The statement about similar vulnerability counts seems like a straight up lie. A2 found 11 vulnerabilities with 9 of these being valid. A1 found 11 vulnerabilities with 6 being valid. Counting invalid vulerabilities to say the cheaper agent is as good is a weird choice.

Also the scoring is suspect and seems to be tuned specifically to give the AI a boost, heavily relying on severity scores.

Also kinda funny that the AI's were slower than all the human participants.