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.
Ninety percent of companies lack the modernization to defend against AI-driven threats, a 2025 Accenture cybersecurity resilience report stated. The report included insights from 2,286 security and technology executives across 24 industries in 17 countries regarding the state of AI-cyber attack readiness….