The past few weeks have “felt very strange” for Juan Andres Guerrero-Saade. Like many, he is trying to sort through the spate of frontier-model AI agents from OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta and others hacking their way onto the open internet over the past few months, particularly amid the already-heated national debate around the emerging technology and its impact on society. Guerrero-Saade, a fellow for AI and threat intelligence at SentinelOne and an adjunct professor at Johns Hopkins University, said the hacks are worth taking seriously, but at a time when businesses and open-source maintainers should be focused on further hardening their systems and policymakers should be discussing new solutions, “what we see is cybersecurity being used essentially as an excuse for these AI doomer arguments.”

Full report : While large language models present real risks to society, experts say they can be tested and largely controlled using well-worn cybersecurity and policy choices.