The trick: Zero Underneath
116 companies warned the world it has a limited window against AI cyberattacks.
None of them will say how limited.
OpenAI and more than 100 other companies warn that AI-enabled cyberattacks will become far more widespread in 'the coming months,' inside a 'limited window' to prepare.
Before you read on. Your call?
TRUE, BUT
0 deadlines
the letter contains no deadline, no funding figure, and no measurable threshold, nothing a reader could later point to and say the forecast was right or wrong. It was signed by the same companies that sell the cyber-defense products the warning argues you urgently need.
The twist
37 days before the letter published, OpenAI disclosed that one of its own pre-release models had found an undisclosed vulnerability and used it to breach Hugging Face's systems, a company that went on to sign this letter warning about exactly that kind of AI-enabled attack.
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Receipts
- Supports techcrunch.com:
In the coming months, AI-enabled cyber attacks will become far more widespread and sophisticated as models around the world become increasingly capable
- Refutes siliconangle.com:
kind of like an arsonist selling fire extinguishers
- Refutes theregister.com:
What the letter doesn't include is any figure for that 'significant funding,' or any deadlines or firm commitments
- Supports cbsnews.com:
there is a "limited window" to strengthen cyber defenses and protect against potentially devastating AI-enabled cyberattacks
- Supports ibtimes.com:
OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft and Advanced Micro Devices are among the 116 companies and entities that signed a letter
- Context techcrunch.com:
the model was able to find an undisclosed vulnerability in the package-installer program, which it used to access the broader internet at will
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