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North Korean state-backed actors infiltrate Western tech companies as remote workers to steal secrets and earn salaries that fund the regime.
China's government focuses its cyber operations on intellectual property theft from R&D-heavy industries in the West, with AI being a major current focus.
Jaguar required a $2 billion loan from the UK government to avoid going under after a ransomware attack shut down its operations for approximately one to two months.
China's government is estimated to employ hundreds of thousands of people in its offensive cyber operations.
The "jagged frontier" of AI capabilities presents an opportunity to intentionally accelerate defensive applications like cybersecurity by curating specialized datasets, environments, and evaluations.
Asymmetric Security's strategy is to shift cybersecurity from a paradigm of reactive emergency triage to one of proactive, continuous digital forensics.
China conducts patient, high-stakes intellectual property theft operations against Western companies.
Off-the-shelf AI models can already achieve 90% accuracy on many investigative cybersecurity tasks.
Asymmetric Security is entering the market with a services-first business model, in partnership with insurance companies, focused on business email compromises.
Asymmetric Security is using a services-first model to build a proprietary dataset needed to improve its AI's performance and reliability for cybersecurity tasks.
Alexi Carlier argues that digital forensics is a domain that allows for the differential acceleration of defensive AI capabilities, as forensics experts do not typically become outstanding hackers.
Current AI models are not yet AGI because while they are superhuman at some tasks, they cannot reliably string together tasks over long horizons.