Former Meta Security Expert: Treat AI Cyber Risk with Early-Pandemic Urgency
dhadfieldmenell · x · 2026-08-08
In a keynote at the AI Security Forum, Joshua Saxe, former senior technical expert on AI security at Meta, argued that policy makers' current understanding of AI cyber risk is fundamentally flawed.
He urged that AI cybersecurity policy must be fixed immediately with an "early-pandemic" level of urgency. Proposing that cyber risk should be treated as a public health concern, he stressed that the integrity of our social fabric depends on taking prompt action.
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