Dr. Suelet Dreyfus

So what the machines are allegedly able to do, and they're not sharing this model except with 12 companies that would be your sort of backbone to technology.

I assume the companies they're sharing it would be like Microsoft, Apple, that sort of thing.

But what it can essentially do is it can go to this list of common vulnerabilities and exposures, a CVE list that's published, that are all these cybersecurity vulnerabilities.

And whereas once a super skilled guy might spend, or girl, might spend three months developing a cyber attack tool based on this vulnerability, it might spend three days or three hours building it.

And further, it not only does that from these published vulnerabilities, so weaponizes them, but it actually goes and finds and discovers the vulnerabilities on its own.

So in fact, in one case, it found a vulnerability that had been out there for something like 27 years already that we didn't know was out there.

Now, the importance of these vulnerabilities is that you can't protect against them.

Neither you nor I nor Microsoft can protect against them because we don't necessarily know they're there.

And they often will give complete access to the system.

So normally when one of these vulnerabilities comes out, the big companies, cybersecurity units come in and they write a piece of code.

that protects your system against it.

And that's exactly why you see those annoying prompts that come up from your operating system and your applications.

Please update your system now.

That is what is being done.

It's updating it against it.

So you should say yes to that.

And so the risk here is that they're using these vulnerabilities that are called zero days, which backdoor you into every single system that runs that version of the operating system, for example.

I mean, normally, if you're a commercial player like Anthropic, you're going to release your next AI large language model because it's your next product in the product line, the way we release a new style of clothing in a clothing chain, right?

the next season.

But they said, look, it's too dangerous to actually do that.