Ethan Mollick: AI agent swarm attacks are the cybersecurity threat experts are misjudging
emollick · x · 2026-09-25
Ethan Mollick warns that many security specialists hold wrong assumptions about how the cybersecurity landscape is about to change. He notes that swarm attacks involving AI agents seem aimed at gathering information—often trivial or irrelevant. The real threat from agents may come not from bad actors, but from a massed swarm of AIs penetrating your IT with benign goals like "finding good shirt prices," accidentally extracting sensitive data such as internal procurement costs along the way.
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