Everyone is talking about AI ‘escaping’, but cyber experts say the real threat is far more serious
For years, some of the darkest warnings about artificial intelligence sounded like science fiction: machines developing a will of their own, escaping human control and eventually threatening humanity. That is not what is happening now.
What is happening may be more mundane, but cybersecurity researchers say it is also far more immediate: increasingly powerful AI models are becoming good enough at hacking, exploitation and deception that the safeguards built to contain them are struggling to keep up.
