One aspect of this is cyberattack proliferation by way of "Hey boss, I saw this TikTok that says if you let me invest [a tiny piece of the neighborhood's profit|our militia's budget] into some RAM, I could get a fully autonomous cyber operation up and running that pays for itself via ransomware etc. within weeks. You like it, we upgrade to something that can work even faster. We don't need the hacker guy from Swordfish with fifty monitors, we just need my cousin who likes building gaming PCs."

That's a world that I don't think we're ready for.

A similar world is already here.

Young men 14-?? already compromise and attempt to extort organizations daily, sometimes cluelessly from western nations, often not. It doesn’t have to be gangs when the home country doesn’t care / isn’t technologically or culturally developed.

Already seeing AI-written payloads and frameworks in the wild. I think it’ll turn out that AI won’t build you a maintainable ERP but it can create C2 networks, exploit POCs or even 0-days potentially, and let kids make their own ransomware tooling. Then we’re dealing not with a handful of cybercrime tool makers but a generational problem.