What Azeem Azhar thinks about cybersecurity

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British technology entrepreneur and writer; founder of Exponential View, a newsletter and research group on technology and the economy, and of PeerIndex; author of Exponential (2021).

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1. 23 Oct 2026

   Our readingOpen-weight models are not, for now, the main culprit in AI-driven cyberattacks; closed models are used too.

   Their wordsSo are the open models to blame? Not right now. Plenty of evidence points to closed models being used by bad actors in attacks.

   ↗The internet’s Wuhan momentexponentialview.co 2nd of 2 in this piece