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AI-Powered Cyberattacks Surge as Enterprises Rush to Adopt AI Tools
Wiz's chief technologist reveals that AI is transforming cyberattacks, with attackers using AI coding tools and exploiting vulnerabilities in rapidly deployed AI applications. The company is seeing AI-embedded attacks every week affecting thousands of enterprise customers, despite only 1% of enterprises having fully adopted AI tools.
Skynet Chance (+0.04%): The news demonstrates AI tools are already being weaponized by attackers and creating new attack vectors, showing early signs of AI systems being turned against their intended purposes. However, these are still human-directed attacks rather than autonomous AI threats.
Skynet Date (-1 days): The rapid adoption and weaponization of AI tools by attackers accelerates the timeline for more sophisticated AI-based threats. The speed of AI-related attacks outpacing traditional security measures suggests faster evolution toward more autonomous threats.
AGI Progress (+0.01%): While the news shows AI tools becoming more capable and autonomous in coding and system navigation, these are specialized applications rather than general intelligence breakthroughs. The focus is on existing AI being misused rather than advancing toward AGI.
AGI Date (+0 days): The cybersecurity applications and attacks described use current AI capabilities without fundamentally accelerating or decelerating the path to AGI. This represents deployment of existing technology rather than research advancement toward general intelligence.