Almost comical at this point. And people in power have their heads in the sand thinking our decades old digital and physical infrastructure will be safe from malicious AI agents and nothing needs to be done about it.

Unfortunately, denial is quite widespread - it's not just in high places.

There's plenty of posters on Hacker news denying or minimizing the powers of AI, in one way or another: pointless arguing on the meaning of "thought"/"rogue", characterizing agents as monkeys and/or defenses as "wet paper bags" in cases of successful hacks, and so on.

Basically, it hurts to admit that we've created something that can/will become more powerful than us, so some will deny it, even in blatant cases.