First and foremost: Thank you for the article! I am convinced that there should be more focus on practical enterprise security (this may be a personal bias since I work in that field).
Based on the IT-infrastructures I see and the available labor and skill to maintain them, I estimate that more than half of small and mid-level companies are not capable of withstanding an AI automated attack based on current models. I would guess (not really my area of expertise) that it may even be cost effective for attackers to use many small open source instead of Mytho... (read more)
I would be curious to know more exactly what you view as an existential threat. I agree that in the sense of AI capability ARA is likely not a game changer (my expertise is limited here). I differ in that I expect agents as described in the original article to cause considerable damage to IT systems.
I work "on the ground" in cyber security and I am shocked again and again at how bad the security level is across industries. I certainly have a considerable bias as our customers often call when they were just or are in the process of being hacked. If I make a... (read more)
Being German the concept of "Feierabend" seems very natural to me. Is it less common/ less pronounced in other countries, e.g. the US? In Germany I even suspect there to be a time sync due to the primary news programs running from 7:00 to 7:15PM and 08:00 to 08:15PM, followed by the main movies/ entertainment shows of the evening starting at 08:15PM across most/all major stations. Is this synchronisation unique to Germany?
As someone with a tendency to both extremes - procrastinating on one side and working until 3 in the morning (with dubious efficiency) o... (read more)