A string of AI cyberattack warnings intensified fears the technology would overwhelm corporate and government systems worldwide.
Soon after web developers used AI to identify a bug affecting the majority of the world’s websites, Cloudflare noted a surge in attempts to exploit the opening, Microsoft warned that a China-linked hacking group used AI to break into an IT services firm, and commercially available chatbots were reportedly used in attacks on banks.
The race between companies trying to patch issues and malign groups aiming to take advantage of them highlights the growing importance of what OpenAI has termed “the defender’s window.”
However, as an Information reporter put it, AI advances likely mean “the closing of the ‘defender’s window’ is nigh.”