AI enabled hackers are going to break everything that’s connected to the internet forcing it to move in to the modern era.
Europe doesn't need to continue using fax machines and bury its head in the sand.
There's also the option to adopt digital technology and just not be an idiot about it this time since the price of intelligence is now effectively 0.
Or, France can continue preventing any productivity increases from technology and watch its social systems continue to collapse.
There is no evidence AI was used to do this and it feels like a random way to force AI into the conversation? It’s just spectacularly negligent behavior by people who think that they don’t have to trouble themselves with security, but want the convenience of having their stuff on the Internet for remote management.
This is just like the OPM hack 10 years ago.
Imagine if your neighborhood had a million autonomous door-opening drones randomly flying around identifying doors and entering them. It wouldn't take long for everyone to lock their doors.
All the unsupported iot stuff will be obliterated by malicious bots, but the next generation of iot will be both more robust and less directly exposed to the internet. Like how Matter devices sit behind a hub rather than directly connecting to the internet.
You can not defend everything. At some point you have to realize the world works because not every exploitable thing is exploited and we live in a civil society (most of us anyway).
I get it, the internet makes things different. But your analogy doesn't work You can not build a building that can not be destroyed.
Pretty interesting example, because I'd like to live in a society where I don't have to lock my doors, because it's safe and I trust people around me. Releasing drone police randomly opening doors in the name of security sounds like a strict downgrade, not "a good thing because people will learn".
and don’t live in a city.
Of course, as you said, in a city I will never feel safe enough to leave a door unlocked when leaving my apartment - big cities are big, and even 0.1% of bad apples may spoil things for everyone. But wanting a safer and more high-trust society sounds like a good thing, right? How would disconnecting from the internet help me.
while still living in the real world.
I don’t really “hope and dream” for stuff like feeling safe.
Especially when it can be had for so much less than the not-feeling-safe options.
(and yes, people randomly taking my things makes me feel unsafe.)
Disconnecting from the Internet makes it harder for people to break into your hardware.
> Releasing drone police randomly opening doors in the name of security sounds like a strict downgrade
This is happening on the Internet hourly, and it’s not the police. Well, sometimes. But mostly not.
Though one could argue that "AI" is needed, currently, for an editor to decide that a story about a hack is worth publishing.
(Yes, current-day AI's do shift the equilibrium. Somewhat. The French fridges would not be news if the situation was anywhere near as bad as the doomsayers seem eager to proclaim.)