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.
Tracking US campaign ad spending, the Wesleyan Media Project identified 220 political ads made at least partly with AI, a trend dubbed 'slopaganda'. Most of them do not disclose the use of the technology.
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.
AI changes security on two fronts: agents act autonomously, and AI speeds up the discovery of vulnerabilities. Security operations centres are left with the duty of triage.
An expert column in Silicon.fr argues that technical debt links today's operational weaknesses, cyber threats amplified by AI and future cryptographic exposure.
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.