{"id":237185,"date":"2026-06-25T11:19:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T15:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/25\/how-do-we-understand-the-latest-ai-cybersecurity-news\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T13:12:04","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T17:12:04","slug":"how-do-we-understand-the-latest-ai-cybersecurity-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/25\/how-do-we-understand-the-latest-ai-cybersecurity-news\/","title":{"rendered":"How do we understand the latest AI cybersecurity news?"},"content":{"rendered":"

How do we understand the latest AI cybersecurity news?<\/a><\/p>\n

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Using an unordered list, summarize the following article with between 4 and 8 key points. So I thought maybe I could ask AI who to talk to locally to better understand the latest news about AI. What are we to make of the unusual warning from cyber experts this week that AI-powered threats could overwhelm defenses in months?Talk to Bruce Schneier, Claude suggested. He\u2019s \u201cthe most quotable security commentator alive.\u201dQuite the distinction. I put it to the test and emailed Schneier, a security technologist who has long been connected with Harvard\u2019s Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, and whose newest book is about democracy and AI. The Cambridge resident, who The Atlantic called \u201ca frenetic and acerbic security expert,\u201d was clearly in a hurry when we spoke on the phone on Tuesday. Our conversation, edited for concision, clarity, and profanity \u2014 and offering one among many takes on this AI moment \u2014 was illuminating. Banners promoting Anthropic’s Claude artificial intelligence model.JASON HENRY\/NYTI don\u2019t pay much attention to AI or cybersecurity or where the two overlap. What is happening in that space?The models are getting better, they\u2019re getting better at all things. Cybersecurity is one of the things. This is good for attack and defense. They\u2019re good at fixing things. Firefox used [the Anthropic model] Mythos to find 270-something vulnerabilities, which have now been fixed, from now until the end of time. That\u2019s great news! But these models separate skill from knowledge.What do you mean?It used to be that you could ask any doctor how to poison someone and they can tell you, right? You ask anybody who\u2019s an engineer how to blow up a bridge, they can tell you. But in our world, the effort and act of getting the skill inculcates you into a certain ethic. Doctor poisoners exist, but they\u2019re very rare. What AI does, what tech does in general, but AI in particular, is it gives someone a capability without any knowledge. Skill without knowledge. So now you can just type, how do I poison somebody, and the AI will tell you. That skill is now available to many more people, including those who have not had years of medical training, [those who haven\u2019t taken] the Hippocratic oath. In cybersecurity, is this new?This isn\u2019t new. A decade ago [there were new tools] that meant more people could be hackers. The ability to hack was diffused among many more people. This [AI] diffuses it further. But it also helps with defense.So is the takeaway that the status quo ante remains, just amplified?But amplified is dangerous! Let\u2019s say the attack and defense is like some wave up and down: Attack wins, defense wins. If the amplitude is greater, there are bigger attacks. There\u2019s more danger.Bruce Schneier video chatted with Edward Snowden in 2015.The Boston Globe\/Globe FreelanceIs there more danger for the average person going about their life in Somerville or Cambridge?Probably not.Then who does the danger affect?Networks. Everybody and nobody. It\u2019s diffuse. So it\u2019s been pretty dangerous on the internet for the past 10 years. Has it affected you? Well, kinda, sorta, maybe, not really, I can\u2019t tell.I was stuck in Detroit when Delta Airlines had a massive outage. You might have had Change Healthcare when they were hit by a ransomware attack and you couldn\u2019t get your prescription for a couple weeks. You live on the East Coast, maybe you had trouble getting oil with the Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack. More stuff like that happens. Totally unpredictable.How then should we regular people interpret all this?We\u2019re moving into a world of increased volatility. But unfortunately, the average person can\u2019t do anything about it because we live in the United States, where money makes the rules and money is ensuring there\u2019s no regulation.We\u2019re building AI for the near-term financial benefit of a bunch of white male tech billionaires. It\u2019s a really dumb way to organize society, but it is the way we\u2019ve decided. That is what we are doing. It\u2019s not surprising regular people will be collateral damage.Polling is pretty clear that people don\u2019t feel good about AI. It\u2019s disempowering \u2014It\u2019s not the tech! It\u2019s the economic and political system the tech is embedded in. It\u2019s not the AI, it\u2019s capitalism. It\u2019s who\u2019s running the AI. It\u2019s: What are the rules and who gets to decide what they are?I understand the framing. Give me an example.AI-enhanced medicine. I think that\u2019d be fantastic. We\u2019d be able to do things normal doctors can\u2019t. Two ways this can go. One is we give every doctor an AI assistant. And the doctor becomes more effective and because a lot of that cognitive load is being offloaded to the AI, the doctor can have a better patient manner, spend more time, be more caring, be a better doctor. We could do that, or the company who owns a medical practice could fire four doctors, give the fifth five times the patients, and everything stays the same. They make more money.Which way do you think it\u2019s going to go?[laughter] You\u2019re saying the technology is neutral, it\u2019s our economic system that tilts the scale. You\u2019re a Cambridge guy? I\u2019ve had an apartment here since 2014. Moved here full time during the pandemic. There are a lot of techies here. Lots of very smart people working on this here. A lot of students in all fields. When I teach students, they\u2019re worried, what should I major in? Answer: I haven\u2019t a freaking clue.We don\u2019t know how this is going to go.P.S. I don\u2019t know how AI is going to go, either. In the meantime, I\u2019m going to read a book.Thanks to all of you who wrote in last week with a recommendation for something to read between now and Labor Day! Here are some of your fellow Camberville & beyond readers\u2019 recs for summer reads in no particular order:Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry \u201cThe character development in this book is amazing; you really get to know people and their motivations.\u201dThe Sound of a Wild Snail Eating by Elisabeth Tova Bailey \u201cIt\u2019s short, meditative, and I haven\u2019t been able to stop thinking about it.\u201dRental House by Weike Wang \u201cA couple goes on two hilarious and semi-disastrous vacations that will make you thankful for whatever might befall you this summer.\u201dSilas Marner by George Eliot \u201cA short, approachable novel that nonetheless contains the character-building, language, and narrative complexity that make Eliot great.\u201dThe Passenger by Cormac McCarthy \u201cProfound convos, interesting elements.\u201dThe Years of Ripening by Joyce Rupp \u201cA gentle, nonfiction book about people in their 80s and 90s, and the graces that can come from being that old if we will look for them.\u201dThe Creatures\u2019 Guide to Caring by Elizabeth Preston \u201cFascinating and funny stories of how different animal species parent and how human parenting and caring is unique.\u201dHeart the Lover by Lily King \u201cHeartfelt, intimate telling of right people at the wrong time.\u201d11\/22\/63 by Stephen King \u201cFor anyone who thinks they don\u2019t like Stephen King because he mostly writes horror, this book is for you!\u201dJoshua Miller can be reached at joshua.miller@globe.com.
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