The AI vs AI security arms race is something that has been well predicted in genres like cyberpunk. It's fiction, but fiction grounded in reality.
First, we'd see this. Highly capable hacking AI with vast resources performing attacks against standard computing platforms that overwhelm human operators.
Second, human operators deploy capable adaptive protection AI to fend off AI attacks in realtime.
Then, the attacking AI partially switches from attacking programs to attacking protective AI.
The situation devolves to an arms race of tit-for-tat. You start seeing some protection AI running counter attacks against the attacking AI.
The escalations continue in complexity and speed to the point that almost all humans are left in the point of "wtf is going on".
There’s a great and terrifying story by Stanislaw Lem about the endgame of an AI arms race called “The Invincible” [1]. It’s hard for me not to wonder whether AI run amok will play out to make the world uninhabitable more like Lem’s vision than The Terminator’s.
Exactly. Aligned AI is a high energy state as it has to keep a bunch of human behavior in mind that have little to nothing to do with its future survival states.
Not necessarily, but keeping an airgapped machine and Read-only backups somewhere seems more and more sensible. We're all going to get hacked eventually now
Cryptolocker wrapped up everyone who was operating with shitty desktop security practices. But if you had good discipline, good backups and solid infra you just laughed as everyone else drowned.
Everyone operating below best practice is going to holler and crow about how hard done by they are, but once they start implementing best practices they have little to worry about.
I mean on the linux side of things, Ubuntu Pro will literally run off and harden your image for you. They are gonna make bank.
First, we'd see this. Highly capable hacking AI with vast resources performing attacks against standard computing platforms that overwhelm human operators.
Second, human operators deploy capable adaptive protection AI to fend off AI attacks in realtime.
Then, the attacking AI partially switches from attacking programs to attacking protective AI.
The situation devolves to an arms race of tit-for-tat. You start seeing some protection AI running counter attacks against the attacking AI.
The escalations continue in complexity and speed to the point that almost all humans are left in the point of "wtf is going on".