An international alliance is warning that foreign adversaries powered with artificial intelligence cyberattacks would crush Western governments and businesses within months.
By Catholics for Catholics
An international alliance is warning that foreign adversaries powered with artificial intelligence cyberattacks would crush Western governments and businesses within months, unless protective measures are reinforced quickly.
Cyber chiefs from the Five Eyes Intelligence Alliance partnership which comprise teams from Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States, said the timeline for potentially disruptive AI-driven attacks is not measured in years, but in months, according to a story by Newsmax.
“The timeline is not years, it is months,” the officials said in a rare joint communiqué.
Created during World War II due to a code-breaking cooperation and formalized through the 1946 UKUSA Agreement, the alliance is widely considered as the world’s oldest and most comprehensive signals intelligence and information sharing network.
The notice reflects growing worries that America’s geopolitical rivals, including China, Russia, and North Korea, are fast forming advanced artificial intelligence into their cyber operations.
Though America and the Western Nations, according to Five Eyes officials, currently hold an edge thanks to leading commercial AI models and stronger integration of AI into military and intelligence operations, they warned that advantage may be momentarily.
The alert comes just days after the United States reportedly ordered AI company Anthropic to restrict access by foreign nationals to some of its most advanced models, citing national security concerns.
Cybersecurity experts already are seeing evidence of the threat.
Google Threat Intelligence Group disclosed in May that it stopped an attack in which artificial intelligence was allegedly used to discover a previously unknown software vulnerability and transform it into a working cyber weapon.
Investigators said Russian-linked actors were suspected, while similar activity has been associated with Chinese and North Korean hacking groups.
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