AI is no longer a future risk but a present operational reality that is changing the fundamental economics of cyberattacks. As the recent joint warning from the Five Eyes alliance makes clear, the timeline for AI driven cyber threats has accelerated into a matter of months, not years.
A state can now signal resolve, coerce a rival, or degrade an adversary's military capability without firing a physical weapon. Cybersecurity and diplomacy used to run in separate lanes, and that separation no longer holds.
