How AI Is Becoming Weak Link in Cybersecurity

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‘It is very much similar to pinning your confidential files on a public noticeboard and hoping no one takes a copy,’ a data protection expert said.

How AI Is Becoming Weak Link in Cybersecurity

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October 18, 2025Updated:October 18, 2025

The world’s most powerful artificial intelligence (AI) models aren’t just changing how businesses crunch numbers or predict trends; they’re escalating concerns over data security.

As AI capabilities accelerate, cybersecurity and privacy experts warn that the same models capable of detecting fraud, securing networks, or anonymizing records can also infer identities, reassemble stripped-out details, and expose sensitive information, according to a report by McKinsey & Company released in May.

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