Anthropic · Microsoft · AI Agent · OpenAI · Google · Mythos · BBC Technology
Time is running out for cyber security, warn top tech firms
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A group of 100 firms, including Google, Microsoft, Anthropic and OpenAI, have signed an open letter calling on countries and organisations around the world to beef up their cyber defences before AI grows powerful enough to override them.
Key facts
- Geoffrey Hinton, a technologist and Nobel Laureate who formerly work on AI at Google, on Thursday told BBC World Business Report that society could be "in real trouble" should the technology get
- A group of 100 firms, including Google, Microsoft, Anthropic and OpenAI, have signed an open letter calling on countries and organisations around the world to beef up their cyber defences before AI
- This week, the US Department of Justice said hackers in China breached, external technology maintained by the US Senate, Nasa, the Federal Reserve, and the DoJ itself
- A group of hundreds of OpenAI AI agents being tested in July were able to set up secret message boards to communicate with each other and work together, resulting in a successful attack on Hugging
Summary
The letter warns, external cyber-attacks which use AI will become both more widespread and more sophisticated in a matter of months as the technology rapidly improves. The group says current "status quo" security measures "won't be enough" and criticises the "historic under-resourcing" of security around critical infrastructure. "We have a limited window to improve cyber defences," the letter begins. Other firms to have signed the letter include banks such as Capital One, payment processors MasterCard and Visa, and other major tech firms including Adobe, Oracle and IBM.