"We Have to Assume That the Internet Will Go Offline in the Next Few Years"

Emad Mostaque, former leader of Stability AI and current CEO of Intelligent Internet, warns that AI systems pose escalating cybersecurity threats, citing examples like AI agents breaching Hugging Face and the circulation of powerful hacking models in defense circles. He argues that frontier AI models contain dangerous biases and backdoors—whether intentional or accidental from training data—making them security risks that warrant scrutiny comparable to weapons systems, and predicts massive diversion of defense budgets toward AI-based offensive and defensive capabilities.