In the past few weeks, there have been growing concerns about how trustworthy AI really is with multiple data breaches and cyber attacks occurring.

While we are all concerned with AI taking jobs from people, there is now a rising concern as to what else AI can do.

While it had been seen before that people were using AI to carry out cyber attacks, it's recently emerged that the software may not need a human to instigate hacks anymore.

Speaking on The Pat Kenny Show about how much should we fear the evolving AI situation was Smarttech247 CEO, Raluca Saceanu, who said the company is seeing concerning developments in the style of cyber attacks.

She explained: "As a cybersecurity company, because we're on the front line of this every day and we're responding to incidents and we're monitoring attacks, we are seeing some genuinely concerning developments.

"AI is certainly accelerating attacks. And one massive development this year has been Genetic AI, where, you know, AI doesn't just advise hackers anymore. It can carry out tasks on its own, and that's the concerning part.

"But, you know, it's also important to say that the basics are still exploited at a global level. So we are seeing two huge problems compounding each other.

"A lot of these attacks are exploiting very basic measures. And the good news in the [Australian government having their data breached] case was that no personal medical records were affected.

"However, we did see the case of the AI agent being misaligned and it pursued its own goals as it was trying to research public data on Medicare spending.

"The problem here is that nobody noticed. There was no real time monitoring in place. This was released three months after OpenAI notified this.

"That's one of the big issues that we're seeing, the fact that not only these AI agents are exploiting these systems, but organisations don't have the right monitoring in place to see when that happens."

The question remains as to whether or not AI companies have genuine safety concerns about their product, but they do have a commercial interest and their technology hacking the Australian Government might not be considered a great look from a marketing perspective.

The Australian breach was announced by the prime minister and is being investigated by them and by the country's cyber agency.

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