AI is supercharging hacking, and your local hospitals and banks aren’t ready

Small- and medium-size institutions are particularly at risk from AI agents supercharging a finite number of human hackers, says Michael Kleinman, head of US policy for the Future of Life Institute, a nonprofit focused on reducing large-scale risks of tech. And despite being small, these institutions provide vital services to their users. “Bank of America has a lot of resources to throw at this — what about community level banks? What about savings and loans? What about credit unions? What about local hospital networks? What about local power grids?” Kleinman said. “The limiting factor used to be that there’s a finite number of malicious hackers in the world, and that’s now no longer the case.”