AI has ushered in a new kind of hacker

AI doomsayers continue to worry about the technology’s potential to bring about societal collapse. But the most likely scenario for now is that small-time hackers will have a field day.

Hackers usually have three main objectives, Yuval Fernbach, the chief technology officer of machine learning operations at software supply chain company JFrog, told Business Insider. They shut things down, they steal information, or they change the output of a website or tool.