Joel Pearson
We are clearly in a new era of cyber security, and we have been since the end of last year. In Australia, there is a report to the Australian Cyber Security Centre every 6 mins on average. We should expect the numbers to be higher this year and next year; all businesses and government need to urgently adapt and improve their online security.
People should not conflate this cyber incident with any existential risk of AI to humanity, which has been going viral over the past two weeks. There is currently no threat to humanity, and anyone who says there is or puts a percentage on such a threat is doing so based on a feeling, not data.
We should not let cyber incidents like this distract from the bigger picture of how the AI revolution is affecting Australians' daily lives. The AI revolution is disrupting education, labour markets, human relationships, our attention spans and even our intelligence and ability to think. Indeed, lives have already been lost to suicide due to interactions with AI agents.