Flavors of AI doomsaying vary dramatically, ranging from Skynet-style scenarios to mass unemployment. But more recently, as it’s become clear that one of AI’s most practical applications is generating code, experts have been sounding the alarm on AI’s potential to disrupt cybersecurity. Hackers could easily abuse AI agents and coding tools to orchestrate devastating cyberattacks, both increasing the scale of these attacks and lowering the skill needed to carry them out.
It goes on to talk about how claude has yet to release a particular model and China has closed-sourced some of its over cybersecurity concerns.
The AI threat to cybersecurity isn’t (so much) people accepting vulnerable AI code, it’s AI finding the vulnerabilities in widespread legacy code.
As for “lowering the bar” - we’ve had skript kiddiez since forever, the availability of AI to skript kkiddiez just raises the bar for finding and fixing zero days by the White Hats before the Black Hats find and exploit them.
White Hats can just set a script kiddiez AI to the task of jiggling doorknobs and seeing what happens. The blade cuts both ways. In the long run, I think automated defense testing will make cybersecurity much better.
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It goes on to talk about how claude has yet to release a particular model and China has closed-sourced some of its over cybersecurity concerns.
The AI threat to cybersecurity isn’t (so much) people accepting vulnerable AI code, it’s AI finding the vulnerabilities in widespread legacy code.
As for “lowering the bar” - we’ve had skript kiddiez since forever, the availability of AI to skript kkiddiez just raises the bar for finding and fixing zero days by the White Hats before the Black Hats find and exploit them.
White Hats can just set a script kiddiez AI to the task of jiggling doorknobs and seeing what happens. The blade cuts both ways. In the long run, I think automated defense testing will make cybersecurity much better.
That’s called professional pen testing. And, I agree, I do believe that it is actually possible to close all the gaps.