Peter Cresswell

I’m far from an authority on cybersecurity, but you don’t have to be an expert to understand the magnitude of what’s happening around the world. Intelligence capabilities and cyber skills are advancing to levels that represent a serious threat. This has created fast-moving waters across the cyber landscape. All boats are accelerating in every direction. If you were sinking before (and honestly, only the truly elite among us weren’t sinking at some rate), you’re sinking much faster now.

Recent article in The Economist highlighting an important paradigm shift whereby AI is flooding channels in the public sector. That is, there are various channels which governments provide to it’s citizens - complaints, legal filings, Freedom of Information Requests, etc. Those channels are now starting to flood and saturate. This phenomenon hit Open Source Software (thenewstack.io) first. The knee jerk response from some projects has been to slam the doors shut to AI contributions. That’s one option but not a great one. Especially not for governments. Closing access to the modern state is not feasible, both politically or practically.