AI is on its way to upending cybersecurity

Anthropic said late last year that state-sponsored Chinese hackers had used its artificial intelligence technology in an effort to infiltrate the computer systems of roughly 30 companies and government agencies around the world.

In a blog post, Anthropic said it was the first reported case of a cyberattack in which AI technologies had gathered sensitive information with limited help from human operators. Human hackers, the company said, handled about 10 to 20 percent of the work needed to conduct the attack.

Five months later, that remains the only known example of a cyberattack driven largely by an “AI agent” — technology that can write computer code and use software on its own. But as Anthropic and its chief rival, OpenAI, prepare to release new and more powerful AI systems, cybersecurity experts are increasingly vocal in their warnings that AI is fundamentally changing cybersecurity

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