AI Hackwave Cuts Software Availability

Powerful, widely available AI tools will soon make finding and exploiting software vulnerabilities cheap, producing a wave of hacks and ransomware. Firms and platforms will respond by removing or simplifying features, shrinking the practical supply of software until secure replacements are developed. — If true, this would reduce digital service availability, raise risks to infrastructure (power, payments, voting), and shift public support sharply toward AI regulation and cybersecurity policy changes.