AI radically cut the cost of cyberattacks on infra, so future disruptions trace back to it
harris_edouard · x · 2026-11-03
The author argues that AI has radically reduced the cost of disrupting infrastructure via cyber means, so most future instances of such disruption will be causally downstream of that cost reduction. His use of "likely" rests on this logic: when the cost of doing something drops dramatically, the great majority of subsequent occurrences necessarily follow from that drop — a reasoning he notes is adjacent to the Jevons paradox.
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