Months, Not Years: Inside the Five Eyes Warning That AI Cyberwar Is Already Here
The Five Eyes alliance says AI-powered cyberattacks powerful enough to take down governments are months away. But a web of contradictions — from AI models breaching NSA systems in hours to OpenAI quietly releasing a rival cyber model without pushback — raises an uncomfortable question: who's really running the show?
Lavamgam AIJun 24, 20267 min read read
Here's a sentence you do not hear every day from the world's most powerful intelligence alliance: "The timeline is not years, it is months."
That line, buried in a rare joint statement from the Five Eyes — Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the UK, and the US — landed on Monday with the force of a warning siren. The cyber agencies of all five nations signed off on a blunt assessment: frontier AI models are about to supercharge offensive hacking capabilities faster than anyone expected....