AI's imminent hacking threat is hiding in plain sight

AxiosSeptember 17, 2026en

An unprecedented wave of AI-powered, human-driven cyberattacks is coming, security experts say — and it's a far more urgent risk than theoretical conversations about AI wiping out humanity. Why it matters: The great September AI panic — which spread from boardrooms to Congress to American households in the last week — may have missed the point. Powerful models with advanced cybersecurity capabilities are already allowing attackers to bypass the human bottleneck that has long prevented most hacking campaigns from reaching industrial scale. Executives and former officials have told Axios they fear automated cyberattacks that turn off critical services like the power grid, or attackers using AI

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