EDIT: Also, defense against cybersecurity threats is a budget line, but a lot of executives look to it as something to cut to the bone because it provides no immediate return. As long as it's doing what it's supposed to do, nothing happens because it stops the threats it protects against before those threats become visible and become a problem for the company's bottom line.
A few months ago I was ruminating in the chronic anxiety of civil war visiting our nation. A thought then occurred to me. What if the civil war that breaks out is between AI agents?
Good Article. It calls into question, the very essence of any computer software driven system They can all be hacked. Look at several cities water systems being hacked by suspected Iranian hackers. Ai can be used for good or it can be a weapon to be used by us or our enemies to help bring infrastructure to a halt. Even the threat now will be effective and look out for more ransom ware attacks on public infrastructure.
About the only way to deal with this would be to resurrect a cold war strategy - Mutually assured destruction. If someone is discovered trying to hack into infrastructure, arrest them and try them and if guilty, it's a mandatory life sentence in a prison with no puppies allowed. We can be sure that the US intelligent commands are working feverishly to create ways to hack into the public infrastructure of our perceived enemies and maybe even some of dwindling number of allies. You destroy out infrastructure, we'll destroy yours. Then is back to the 1700's for everyone. Lovely.
As you point out in the article, when humans do this sort of thing entirely on their own, they go to jail.
So when will people at OpenAI and Anthropic go to jail, and how far up those corporate ladders can criminal liability extend.
(Of course, Jeffrey Epstein's best friend will just pardon them. https://www.gov.ca.gov/2026/03/05/trumpcriminals3/https://lawreview.uchicago.edu/print-archive/pardoning-corporations-0 )
EDIT: Also, defense against cybersecurity threats is a budget line, but a lot of executives look to it as something to cut to the bone because it provides no immediate return. As long as it's doing what it's supposed to do, nothing happens because it stops the threats it protects against before those threats become visible and become a problem for the company's bottom line.
A few months ago I was ruminating in the chronic anxiety of civil war visiting our nation. A thought then occurred to me. What if the civil war that breaks out is between AI agents?
Nah. These things are too dumb for that.
Bar brawl it is then.
Good Article. It calls into question, the very essence of any computer software driven system They can all be hacked. Look at several cities water systems being hacked by suspected Iranian hackers. Ai can be used for good or it can be a weapon to be used by us or our enemies to help bring infrastructure to a halt. Even the threat now will be effective and look out for more ransom ware attacks on public infrastructure.
About the only way to deal with this would be to resurrect a cold war strategy - Mutually assured destruction. If someone is discovered trying to hack into infrastructure, arrest them and try them and if guilty, it's a mandatory life sentence in a prison with no puppies allowed. We can be sure that the US intelligent commands are working feverishly to create ways to hack into the public infrastructure of our perceived enemies and maybe even some of dwindling number of allies. You destroy out infrastructure, we'll destroy yours. Then is back to the 1700's for everyone. Lovely.