AI models are becoming the ‘most potent cyber weapon’ ever created, Cohere CEO says

AI models are becoming the "most potent cyber weapon" ever created, pushing the "frontier" of cybersecurity into new territory, the CEO of AI firm Cohere told CNBC's "The Tech Download" podcast.Aidan Gomez's warning comes amid growing concern about the ability of AI models to identify and exploit security vulnerabilities, following an incident in which OpenAI models gained access to Hugging Face. Cybersecurity has become a central issue in a broader debate over AI safety as increasingly powerful models demonstrate more autonomous capabilities.AI-related stocks sold off on Monday after tech leaders led by Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called for a slowdown in the pace of development of AI capabilities.Gomez was a co-author of the influential 2017 research paper "Attention Is All You Need," which helped lay the foundation for today's leading AI models."I think that these models are the most potent cyber weapon that has ever been created, that we've ever seen. They are incredible at finding and exploiting vulnerabilities at scale," Gomez said, in an episode of "The Tech Download" published last week. "I think it was quite shocking," Gomez said of the Hugging Face hack.Aidan Gomez, chief ...