The Quiet Menace of AI Powered Hacking The specter of an AI apocalypse has been cast as a distant threat, one that requires a catastrophic collapse of societal norms or a rogue AI entity unleashing chaos upon the world.
However, this narrative may be misleading: what if the true danger lies not in the AI itself, but in its ability to empower and enable human malice?
The Idaho National Laboratory's 2007 experiment, known as the Aurora Generator Test, demonstrated how a mere 30 lines of code could cripple a power grid by hacking into control rooms.