AI on pace to bypass cybersecurity systems in months, not years, "Five Eyes" spy partners warn
The most advanced artificial intelligence models are improving quickly enough to outsmart prevailing cybersecurity know-how within months, the Five Eyes spy agency alliance has warned. The risk posed by AI-enhanced hacking is in the spotlight in the wake of startup Anthropic saying in April that its cutting-edge Mythos models had unprecedented abilities to find software vulnerabilities.
I trust you see the recursive problem this creates. Because AI can be used to crack the security protocols for any computer system, any security system must continuously use AI to defend against AI based attacks. This leads to a running battle between the Hackers and the Network Admins to run more complex and sophisticated methods to crack or protect a system. Each round of this battle leads to ever greater consumption of energy, water and time by the supercomputers waging this battle. Since it is a war that neither side can ever really "win", there is really no upper limit to how much it will cost to keep a system secure. It also probably makes your home computer or laptop nearly impossible to secure.
This of course is wonderful newz for anyone renting out time on their supercomputer (probably to both combatants), but for everyone else including the end consumer whose financial and medical records have to be kept secure, it's going to make it quite expensive.
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