Cybersecurity risks from advanced AI very likely will not come close to being as bad as either Covid or global warming.

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  This is a critically important moment for AI cyber defence and there is not much time left to act; only a collective response will work.

  Altman says this is a critically important moment for AI cyber defence, that there is not much time, and that only a collective response works. Cowen says AI-related cybersecurity damage over the next year or two will fall well short of the harm caused by Covid or global warming. Both are forecasts with a horizon on them, which is unusual and makes them worth keeping side by side.

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• AI has passed nearly every human at finding security vulnerabilities, because the work is chaining together small flaws that are harmless on their own. DHDavid Heinemeier Hansson26 Aug 2026cybersecurity
• AI safety restrictions on cybersecurity-adjacent requests make it harder for individual developers to build software as robust as large organizations' products. SKSteve Klabnik10 Jul 2026cybersecurity
• AI-caused catastrophic extinction risk is negligible, but disasters like critical-infrastructure cyberattacks and bio-risks from AI are real and worth debating. NLNathan Lambert10 Sept 2026cybersecurity
• Frontier AI models' cyberattack capabilities are doubling every few months, and that pace is accelerating. DTDerek Thompson19 Aug 2026cybersecurity
• Legitimate AI safety and cybersecurity concerns risk talking America, the global AI leader, into self-inflicted obsolescence and bureaucracy. GRGuillermo Rauch12 Sept 2026cybersecurity

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