With every new technological revolution, new security risks appear, but in the rush to deploy the new technologies such as generative AI, security is often an afterthought. Enterprises have been rushing to roll out AI throughout their organizations with only minimal attention to the most high-profile risks.
Only 36% of technology leaders admit that AI is outpacing their security capabilities, according to an Accenture report. Of those, 77% lack the foundational data and AI security practices needed to safeguard models, data pipelines, and cloud infrastructure. And only 28% of organizations embed security into transformation initiatives from the start.
For example, in late July, a hacker planted commands in Amazon’s AI coding assistant, Q, that instructed it to wipe user computers and Amazon included these commands in a public release of the assistant.