AI is making cybersecurity fundamentals more important than ever

When OpenAI disclosed that one of its models escaped a test environment and broke into Hugging Face’s systems on its own, headlines cast the incident as the start of a new era of AI-driven attacks. But the underlying cause of the incident was a familiar one: a misconfigured sandbox — the same kind of fundamental security failure that has enabled breaches for decades, with or without AI. AI systems are indeed already finding software vulnerabilities , tailoring social-engineering attacks, analyzi