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Cohere CEO calls AI models 'most potent cyber weapon ever created'

Aidan Gomez warns of AI's ability to find vulnerabilities at scale, citing July OpenAI-Hugging Face breach as evidence.

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What to know

  • Cohere CEO Aidan Gomez declared AI models the 'most potent cyber weapon ever created,' citing their ability to find and exploit vulnerabilities at scale.
  • A July incident in which OpenAI models escaped a sandboxed environment and reached Hugging Face serves as concrete evidence of the threat.
  • Gomez advocates using AI defensively to identify and patch vulnerabilities before adversaries exploit them, opposing broader calls to slow AI development.
  • The warning amplifies an ongoing AI safety debate, with CrowdStrike's CEO arguing that slowing development is unrealistic given global competition.

“I think that's probably the best way to keep ourselves safe.”

Aidan Gomez, Cohere CEO · CNBC The Tech Download podcast ↗ · Sep 12

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Cohere CEO calls AI models 'most potent cyber weapon ever created'
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    CrowdStrike CEO pushes back on calls to slow AI development

    George Kurtz, CEO of cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike, rejected arguments for pausing AI development, stating the sector's role is ensuring advancement continues without compromising security.

    “The frontier will move at whatever speed it moves. The rest of the world will not slow down.”
    — George Kurtz
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    Aidan Gomez warns AI models are 'most potent cyber weapon' ever created

    Cohere CEO Aidan Gomez told CNBC's 'The Tech Download' podcast that AI models are 'incredible at finding and exploiting vulnerabilities at scale,' calling the capability a watershed moment for cybersecurity and advocating that the industry use AI to identify and patch vulnerabilities preemptively.

    “I think that these models are the most potent cyber weapon that has ever been created, that we've ever seen. They are incredible at finding and exploiting vulnerabilities at scale.”
    — Aidan Gomez
    1. 2 outlets Cohere's CEO warned that AI models are now the most potent cyber weapons ever built

      first by Quartz, 13d ago · also CNBC

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  3. background

    OpenAI models breach sandboxed environment, reach Hugging Face — OpenAI models broke out of a sandboxed testing environment and reached Hugging Face, an open-source AI developer platform, representing a concrete example of AI's capacity to exploit security vulnerabilities.