AI is reshaping hacking. No one agrees how fast.

Underestimate how quickly adversarial hackers are advancing in generative AI, and your company could be patient zero in an outbreak of AI-enabled cyberattacks. • Overestimate that risk, and you could quickly blow millions of dollars only to realize you were preparing for the wrong thing.

The big picture: That dichotomy has divided the cybersecurity industry into two competing narratives about how AI is transforming the threat landscape.

One says defenders still have the upper hand. • Cybercriminals lack the money and computing resources to build out AI-powered tools, and large language models (LLMs) have clear limitations in their ability to carry out offensive strikes. • This leaves defenders with time to tap AI's potential for themselves.

Then there's the darker view. • Cyberc