Five Eyes intelligence alliance warns of threats from new AI models
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- Frontier AI models are ‘fundamentally transforming’ offensive cyber capabilities, intelligence officials say.
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- “The timeline is not years, it is months.”
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Frontier AI models are ‘fundamentally transforming’ offensive cyber capabilities, intelligence officials say.
xwhatsapp-strokecopylinkgoogle Add Al Jazeera on Googleinfo. A man holds a laptop computer as cyber-code is projected on him in this illustration, created on May 13, 2017 [Kacper Pempel/Reuters]By Reuters Published On 23 Jun 202623 Jun 2026Cutting-edge artificial intelligence technology is poised to supercharge offensive hacking capabilities, and urgent action is needed to face up to the threat, US, UK, Canadian, Australian and New Zealand officials have said.
“Frontier AI models are anticipated to exceed current industry expectations, fundamentally transforming both offensive and defensive cyber capabilities,” the intelligence alliance commonly known as the Five Eyes said in a three-page statement on Monday.