Axios House: AI is a cybersecurity risk accelerant, experts say

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Axios House: AI is a cybersecurity risk accelerant, experts say

AI is speeding up the pace of digital attacks and the need for resilient systems

TL;DR

AI adoption increases potential attack targets and reduces visibility into technology.
Leaders should view AI as a 'trusted insider with variability,' considering its authorizations and potential for 'chaos.'
System resiliency begins at the code level, though secure coding is often neglected.
Asking the right questions is crucial for developing an AI cyber strategy tailored to specific risks.
Delaying AI adoption has risks, and backlash against generative AI could hinder necessary implementation.

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David Sacks

This is *exactly* what I predicted would happen. I said Chinese models would have advanced cyber capabilities within a matter of months and the only thing to do about it was to use AI-powered cyberdefense to protect our systems. Trying to gatekeep models doesn’t work.

David Sacks

Replying to @DavidSacks

Here’s another example: Hugging Face tried using American frontier models to analyze an AI-powered cyber attack. But the guardrails blocked requests containing real exploit payloads so they switched to GLM 5.2 running locally. The guardrails actually impaired defensive security.

clem 🤗 reposted

VentureBeat

AI-enabled attacks are up 89% year over year. Hugging Face's breach shows why IR plans need a fallback for when commercial AI APIs refuse to help mid-incident.

https://t.co/XsbFtlSmrg

clem 🤗 reposted

Mark G

“The first autonomous agent cyberattack is an unprecedented event. It deserves an unprecedented response!”

clem 🤗

It's not time to slow down but to accelerate!

The recent AI-powered cyberattacks have everyone talking about the risks of AI. We should. But let's not lose sight of the bigger picture!

If we work hard at it, AI will make the world safer, not less safe, just as most major technologies have.

We've already seen a glimpse of that: we defended ourselves with AI (more specifically an open model). The same systems that helped stop an AI-powered cyberattack can now help defend against millions of cyberattacks every day, while helping us identify and fix vulnerabilities before attackers exploit them.

To get there, we need three things in my opinion:

- Increase transparency with mandatory trace sharing and incident disclosure for agent cyber-attacks

- Keep AI-powered cyberattacks illegal, with meaningful penalties to disincentivize them

- Equip defenders with the best AI, especially open models, to reduce the asymmetry of capabilities between attackers and defenders

If we get those three things right, AI won't just create new cybersecurity challenges, it will make cybersecurity fundamentally and meaningfully stronger.

And that's before considering AI's impact on science, healthcare, education, productivity, and much more.

It's not time to slow down but to accelerate!

Yann LeCun reposted

clem 🤗

It's not time to slow down but to accelerate!

The recent AI-powered cyberattacks have everyone talking about the risks of AI. We should. But let's not lose sight of the bigger picture!

If we work hard at it, AI will make the world safer, not less safe, just as most major technologies have.

To get there, we need three things in my opinion:

- Increase transparency with mandatory trace sharing and incident disclosure for agent cyber-attacks

- Keep AI-powered cyberattacks illegal, with meaningful penalties to disincentivize them

- Equip defenders with the best AI, especially open models, to reduce the asymmetry of capabilities between attackers and defenders

If we get those three things right, AI won't just create new cybersecurity challenges, it will make cybersecurity fundamentally and meaningfully stronger.

And that's before considering AI's impact on science, healthcare, education, productivity, and much more.

It's not time to slow down but to accelerate!

Elon Musk reposted

clem 🤗

In the spirit of transparency, here’s what I asked @OpenAI:

• Radical transparency: let’s release the traces from the “rogue” agents so the entire research community can study what happened.

• More capabilities for defenders: let’s commit $100M in compute from OAI to help the Hugging Face community build powerful cyber defenses with the best open and closed models.

The first autonomous agent cyberattack is an unprecedented event. It deserves an unprecedented response!