- The Five Eyes alliance has warned that cutting-edge GenAI models will enable advanced cyberattacks against businesses and governments within months.
- A statement highlights that cyber risk is now a leadership and business continuity issue, requiring a whole-of-society response.
- Comes amid concerns over Anthropic’s Mythos preview and other models already showing offensive potential despite guardrails.
In just a few months, high-end generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) models will be capable of launching cyberattacks against large companies and government organizations, Five Eyes warns.
The Five Eyes are an intelligence-sharing alliance between the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Formed after World War II, it allows the five countries to cooperate closely on intelligence and national security.
Earlier this week, Five Eyes issued a new warning, saying that AI will help improve cyber defense over time, but will also accelerate the speed, scale and sophistication of threats: “Frontier AI models are expected to exceed current industry expectations, fundamentally transforming offensive and defensive cyber capabilities. The timeline is not years, but months,” the warning said. “In this environment, cyber resilience is integral to advancing business continuity, market confidence and long-term value. »
All hands on deck
Five Eyes now says the industry needs all hands on deck to solve what is increasingly becoming a hot-button issue:
“A response from the whole organization and the whole of society is necessary,” he said. “Cyber risk can no longer be treated as a purely technical issue. It is a critical business risk and leadership responsibility.”
In early April, news broke that Anthropic’s latest AI model, Mythos Preview, was so effective at exploiting software vulnerabilities that the company couldn’t make it public. Instead, it only shared it with a handful of U.S. companies, to give them a head start against threat actors.
While skeptics said it was just a publicity stunt, similar to what OpenAI achieved with ChatGPT 2.0, companies that used it (e.g. Mozilla) confirmed that it was indeed powerful enough that it needed to be controlled.
Even the models available today, despite all the safeguards, are regularly exploited by malicious actors in different cyberattack scenarios.
Via The Guardian
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