Humans, not rogue AI, are still the biggest cybersecurity risk to energy systems
We were just kind of surviving at the appetite of our predators,” Joshua Corman, executive in residence for public safety and resilience at the Institute for Security and Technology (IST), told me last year. At the time, I was preoccupied with a Department of Homeland Security warning that Iranian actors and sympathizers could target the US with cyberattacks.Last week, I called Corman up to chat about recent incidents of rogue AI agents orchestrating their own complex cyberattacks. Even AI executives are talking about whether the technology they’re building could grow so out of control that it triggers an apocalypse.
- ▪We were just kind of surviving at the appetite of our predators,” Joshua Corman, executive in residence for public safety and resilience at the Institute for Security and Technology (IST), told me last year.
- ▪At the time, I was preoccupied with a Department of Homeland Security warning that Iranian actors and sympathizers could target the US with cyberattacks.Last week, I called Corman up to chat about recent incidents of rogue AI agents orchest
- ▪Even AI executives are talking about whether the technology they’re building could grow so out of control that it triggers an apocalypse.
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