In late 2025, the U.S. artificial intelligence company Anthropic announced it had disrupted a Chinese state-sponsored group that had used the company’s own technology to attack roughly 30 Western technology, finance, government, and critical infrastructure targets—all with minimal human supervision. It was the first reported AI-orchestrated espionage campaign. But it will not be the last. Just a f...
The narrative presents a compelling case for the urgent threat posed by autonomous cyber-agents, grounding its claims in recent events and historical cyberattacks. The strongest version of this argument highlights the exponential increase in cyber-risk as AI transitions from assistive tools to independent actors, capable of executing complex operations at unprecedented speed and scale. The article credibly outlines the vulnerabilities in critical infrastructure and the gaps in current defensive ...