The Five Eyes intelligence alliance has issued a joint warning that the next generation of artificial intelligence is poised to supercharge offensive hacking, and that the window to prepare for it is closing fast.
In a coordinated statement, the agencies of the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand said urgent action was needed, and put a strikingly short clock on the threat.
“Frontier AI models are anticipated to exceed current industry expectations, fundamentally transforming both offensive and defensive cyber capabilities,” the statement read. “The timeline is not years, it is months.”
The agencies went on to warn that AI models capable of causing serious cyber harm are themselves only “months away” from being publicly available, a compression of the usual government risk horizon into something close to the present tense.
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