AXIOS (Sam Sabin) - AI's imminent hacking threat is hiding in plain sight
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 agents (like the ones that…