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AI vulnerability discovery scores the highest impact of 20 emerging risks

AI-driven discovery of cyber vulnerabilities ranked as the highest-impact emerging risk in Gartner's quarterly survey of 316 companies, conducted in April and May, overtaking information integrity risk, which had topped the previous survey three months earlier. The shift reflects that AI systems can now scan for previously unknown flaws, making the exploit step less difficult.

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Risk managers, auditors and senior executives at 316 companies spent April and May ranking 20 threats they have not yet felt. AI discovery of cyber vulnerabilities came back first, according to Gartner. Three months earlier the same quarterly survey put information integrity risk at the top and left AI vulnerability discovery out of the top five. The exploit step stopped being hard Two things changed underneath that number. AI systems scan for previously unknown flaws … More

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