The Five Eyes signals intelligence alliance of Australia, the United States, Britain, New Zealand and Canada has warned that disruptive AI cyber attacks targeting governments and companies could become reality within months, The Guardian reported on Sunday.

In a joint statement, the signals intelligence agencies of Australia, the United States, Britain, New Zealand and Canada said AI would help improve cyber defence over time, but was also accelerating the speed, scale and sophistication of cyber threats. They said frontier AI models were expected to fundamentally change cyber attack and defence capabilities beyond current industry expectations. That would become reality in months, not years, they said.

Agencies in the Five Eyes alliance said rapid advances in AI models would lower the barrier to entry for malicious actors and increase speed and complexity. "Cyber risk can no longer be treated as a purely technical issue," the agencies said. "It is a core business risk and a leadership responsibility."

Olivia Shen (올리비아 션), an AI and national security expert at the United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney, said "we should expect that the next Mythos or Fable could be right around the corner." She said that while only what is public can be seen, China or other countries and companies may be developing similarly advanced models.