AI Cyber-Offense Capabilities Cross Critical Threshold, Doubling Every Four Months
UK AI Safety Institute reports that frontier models (Claude Mythos Preview, GPT-5.5) successfully completed autonomous 32-step corporate network takeovers, marking the first time AI has demonstrated end-to-end offensive cyber capabilities. The capability doubling rate has accelerated from seven months to four months, indicating rapid progression toward weaponizable AI systems.
This represents a fundamental shift from AI as a defensive tool to an autonomous offensive weapon, requiring immediate policy response and enterprise security recalibration.
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