AXIOS December 16, 2025
The once-distant prospect of AI models executing cyberattacks fully on their own now looks unavoidable, according to a range of recent academic studies and industry warnings.
Why it matters: This is the worst AI tools will likely ever perform, and they’re already unnerving researchers and developers.
Driving the news: Leaders from Anthropic and Google will testify Wednesday before two House Homeland Security Committee subcommittees about how AI and other emerging technologies are reshaping the cyber threat landscape.
- “We believe this is the first indicator of a future where, despite strong safeguards, AI models may enable threat actors to conduct an unprecedented scale of cyberattacks,” Logan Graham, head of Anthropic’s AI red team, wrote in his opening testimony, shared first...
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