If AI leads to widespread unemployment, it could create \u201ccivil challenges,\u201d as seen by the attacks on OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, the CEO of Cisco said.<\/p>\n
Chuck Robbins told Semafor World Economy that the psychological impact of AI could create more unrest than rising costs from AI-driven demand. Some of those concerns, he said, are \u201cbased in irrational ideology,\u201d but some \u201cprobably, over time, may pan out to be true.\u201d<\/p>\n
A 20-year-old Texas man was charged Monday with throwing a Molotov cocktail-like device at Altman\u2019s home, furthering concern among security experts about the safety of AI CEOs.<\/p>\n
The nearer-term consequences of AI, Robbins said, are the impacts on cybersecurity of new models such as Claude Mythos. That, Robbins said, will lead to tech companies finding more vulnerabilities in their own code than customers are able to patch.<\/p>\n
When customers face large numbers of security updates, he said, they triage, and some problems never get fixed, \u201cand then you land with Volt Typhoon and Salt Typhoon,\u201d two major recent China-backed hacks.<\/p>\n
The arrival of Mythos and similar tools \u201cmassively multiplies the number of instances where that occurs,\u201d although longer term, \u201chaving those models that we can run our code through before we release it, you\u2019re going to find vulnerabilities we wouldn\u2019t see today.\u201d<\/p>\n