Sam Altman's OpenAI Issues Warning Against New AI Models As They Pose High Cybersecurity Risk: All Details

OpenAI said that the cyber capabilities of its artificial intelligence models are leveling up, and this also poses a higher cybersecurity risk. These AI models may either develop working zero-day remote exploits against well-defended systems, conduct industrial intrusion operations, or crack complex enterprises. OpenAI said, 'Investing in strengthening models for defensive cybersecurity tasks and creating tools that enable defenders to more easily perform workflows such as auditing code and patching vulnerabilities.' In order to control the cybersecurity-related risks, OpenAI stated that it is relying on a mix of access controls, egress controls, infrastructure hardening, and monitoring.If this happens, then OpenAI is right, as AI models will

start helping attackers, and cybercrimes will increase in number for sure. And yes, we will start seeing multiple automated attacks where AI could be used to craft payloads without direct human coding or intervention. Apart from that, the production of malicious tools like worms, botnets, and ransomware will skyrocket because AI will have the capability to produce them in bulk.Also Read: Microsoft, OpenAI, Google Could Land In Legal Trouble Over Delusional Outputs By AI Models, Here Is Why To tackle these kinds of situations, enterprises will require AI-backed cyber defenses. One thing that should be considered here is that this kind of prowess for AI will invite scrutiny from lawmakers all over the globe because tougher compliance standards are something that AI still needs at any given point in time.Imagine a world where both offense and defense are being handled by AI and humans combined. As scary as it sounds, the future is slowly moving in the mentioned direction. The only thing that can stop this kind of situation from happening is tight regulations for AI and accountability from the side of AI firms that are deploying these models. On a concluding note, it will be interesting to see what technical advancements will be brought by AI companied like OpenAI, Google, and more will ring to nerf AIs down.