AI-powered hacking has exploded into industrial-scale threat, Google says

‘There’s a misconception that the AI vulnerability race is imminent. The reality is it’s already begun,’ said John Hultquist at Google’s threat intelligence group. Photograph: Tek Image/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/Getty Images

In just three months, AI-powered hacking has gone from a nascent problem to an industrial-scale threat, according to a report from Google.

The findings from Google’s threat intelligence group add to an intensifying, global discussion about how the newest AI models are extremely adept at coding – and becoming extremely powerful tools for exploiting vulnerabilities in a broad array of software systems.