AI is speeding up both the discovery and exploitation of vulnerabilities and giving cybercriminals new tools. Zeina Zakhour, global CTO of Eviden at Atos, also points to the risk of autonomous systems that misread their goals, get hijacked or cause unintended consequences.
A text file left in a customer's Downloads folder led their coding agent to install a malicious npm package. Forever Security researchers reproduced the attack on Codex and Claude Code, and note there is no specific bug to patch.
Big US banks view AI agents as a nightmare: they are very hard to tell apart from human users and could make financial decisions that harm customers.
Teams will soon show an alert when a meeting participant uses a cloned voice or an AI-generated face. Microsoft is leaving detection to outside vendors, which companies must choose and authorise to analyse their calls.
A study presented at the ACM Web Conference 2026 examined 2,050 memories saved by ChatGPT for 65 users and found that 96% were created by the chatbot without any request. More than half describe the person's psychology.
An MIT Technology Review essay argues that tech policy celebrates companies for clearing low bars, such as promising a chatbot will not encourage suicide. Firms can meet those standards while still shipping products that cause everyday harm.