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Should you care about an “AI slowdown?”
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Why it matters
Talos' commentary highlights that adversaries like Qilin are already operationalizing LLMs to lower the barrier to attacks, so defenders should invest in agentic frameworks and security fundamentals regardless of AI's development pace.
Cisco Talos' Threat Source newsletter argues that a potential slowdown in AI development would have little impact on cybersecurity, contending that current models are already highly capable for both offense and defense and that improving agentic harnesses and security fundamentals matters more than chasing new models. It also notes ransomware group Qilin is leveraging large language models to generate destructive scripts and accelerate attacks.