AI broke the cybersecurity world. Now what?

I’ve always enjoyed talking to security expert Alex Stamos because he’s so direct — and he doesn't mince words about how the multibillion dollar cybersecurity industry as we’ve known it is all but doomed thanks to the unrelenting, AI-boosted waves of hacks, breaches, and attacks.

That much disruption means a lot of places where bad guys can get in while everyone else is left scrambling. Alex isn’t a doomer in the long run, but he does think we've got a dark age to get through before things get better.

Read the full interview transcript on The Verge.

Links:

Attack of the killer script kiddies | The Verge

Alex Stamos on AI's coming cybersecurity dark age | Ground Level AI

Palo Alto’s CEO Said ‘AI Must Fight AI’ | Palo Alto Networks

Cybersecurity vets protest ‘dangerous’ ban on Mythos | TechCrunch

Binance: $6.3B heist used fake job interviews, internal AI tool | The Verge

A thousand fewer paths to root | OpenAI

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