Geopolitics
The AI-Powered Zero-Day: A New Weapon for Digital Imperialism
For the first time, hackers have leveraged AI to autonomously discover and exploit a 'zero-day' vulnerability, fundamentally collapsing the cost, time, and expertise required for such high-end cyberattacks. This marks a terrifying escalation in the digital arms race, where tools of surveillance and suppression are now democratized by AI, threatening to entrench a new era of automated digital imperialism that disproportionately targets the developing world.
