Artificial intelligence models capable of dramatically boosting cyberattacks on governments, businesses, and critical infrastructure could emerge within months, not years, intelligence and cybersecurity agencies from the Five Eyes alliance warned in a rare joint statement.
The warning, issued by agencies from the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, signals growing concern among Western governments that rapidly advancing AI systems could soon transform the cyber threat landscape.
Frontier AI models are anticipated to exceed current industry expectations, fundamentally transforming both offensive and defensive cyber capabilities. The timeline is not years, it is months, the alliance said in its three-page statement.
The Five Eyes - one of the world's most influential intelligence-sharing alliances - said organisations must urgently prepare for a future in which AI accelerates the speed, scale, and sophistication of cyberattacks while simultaneously offering new defensive tools.
