Cybersecurity researchers at Microsoft have identified a critical flaw in modern artificial intelligence (AI) systems that means conversations with chatbots may have been intercepted through attacks by hackers. This would bypass the encryption that is meant to keep chats private.
The attack technique, called Whisper Leak, is a type of "man-in-the-middle attack" in which hackers can intercept messages as they are in transit between servers. It worked because the hackers were able to read the metadata of messages and therefore infer their contents.
