Tech writer Timothy Lee: AI-powered hacking may cause billions in damage by 2027, but that's the world's normal state
binarybits · x · 2026-10-17
Responding to concerns that widely available open-weight models could enable a far-tail cyberattack within a year, Timothy Lee argues he expects a wave of AI-powered hacking incidents by 2027 causing billions in damage — but notes that dozens of hacks causing billions in losses is already the normal state of the world, and hardly anybody loses sleep over it.
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