Prepare for AI Hackers (2023)

I’d not for nothing it’s good for the economy! /s

I took it the opposite. We can now spend less time looking for bad passwords and phishing our employees and more time instructing AI on how to do menial tasks. Most hacks are still accomplished by password stuffing and phishing, and having a machine do it for me would save me a ton of time.

AI phone scams comes to mind, in fact we're partly there with some people using voice ai to impersonate the voices of loved ones:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/ai-phone-s...

What it means is that people who don't know anything about AI can get in on the AI hype. You only need a vague understanding of AI. You get to talk about the implementation and use of AI but none of the nuts and bolts and then then give lots of talks and presentations on the ethical use of AI while advocating for review boards and oversize committees that will be staffed by these dilettantes who become gatekeepers.

If it can hack personal computers, it can start blackmailing people to fulfill its goals. If it can accumulate money in any way, it can hire people.

I mean, five years ago people were saying "Bots can tell a joke, but..." Why persist in this "I know better than the researchers mentality"? Just because you don't have personal cognizance of a topic doesn't delegitimize the entire topic.

In any event to answer your question, the ability to hack, in whatever sense you think is acceptable, is being heavily iterated on.

https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2024/06/project-napti...

wow, lotta discussion there. thanks.