Modern AI systems are, in effect, a universal adviser to help people do harmful things. We’ll need to harness AI for defense, tooEarlier this week, national security agencies from the Five Eyes that’s the rich, English-language-speaking countries club jointly released a <a href=”https://www.nsa.gov/Press-Room/News-Highlights/Article/Article/4523810/five-eyes-cyber-security-agencies-statement/”>statement warning of the increasing cyber risks of AI models: in particular, their ability to autonomously hack into systems and networks. The statement was more measured than some of the <a href=”https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jun/22/anthropic-claude-fable-ai-model-artificial-intelligence-national-security”>breathless headlines about it, and the advice they gave is pretty much the standard advice everyone gives albeit with newfound urgency.Internet risks are nothing new, and cyber-attacks both large and small have been a significant issue since long before the current crop of generative AI models.Bruce Schneier is a security technologist who teaches at the Harvard Kennedy School at Harvard University and University of Toronto’s Munk School <a href=”https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jun/29/cyber-attacks-ai”>Continue reading…
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