AI Advancing CyberSecurity is a drain on the global economy.

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Summary

The article argues that AI's role in cybersecurity is creating an economic drain by amplifying vulnerabilities and attacks, leading to escalating costs without improving standards of living.

We are on a treadmill of economic destructive behavior and we can't get off. We are spending untold wealth on tokens to create problems (find new vulnerabilities, empower new attackers) and then fix those problems (detect the new attackers and fix the new vulnerabilities). These problems existed, yes, but with AI we are exacerbating the scale of these problems. We are 10xing the problems and their collective cost. It will only get worse as the models become deeper and more effective. What's worse, is this is the only thing that AI has so far proven to be good at. It's like building a better Arsonist Flamethrower, burning down houses, and than putting out the fires with better fire engines. Neither of which was necessary until AI came along. This is nothing but an inflationary drain on the economy, increasing the cost of doing business, with no end in sight and doing nothing to improve our standard of living. The reverse, actually. And there doesn't seem anything we can do to stop it from getting worse.
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