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The Double-Edged Sword: How AI’s Hunger for Data Makes It Cybersecurity’s Weakest Link

  • The rush to adopt AI is creating major new pathways for data breaches, identity theft and corporate espionage, making the very tools meant to secure our future into its greatest vulnerability.
  • AI systems require vast amounts of data to function, but feeding them sensitive corporate or client information is likened to posting confidential files on a public noticeboard, with the company often losing control over that data.
  • A critical flaw of current AI is its inability to truly delete data. Once information is absorbed by a model, it becomes a permanent, unerasable part of its core structure, creating a lasting digital shadow.
  • Laws are failing to keep pace with AI, as companies exploit loopholes (e.g., arguing model training isn’t data storage) and shift operations offshore to avoid regulations, creating a dangerous accountability gap.
  • Organizations must take primary responsibility by implementing strict controls, such as deploying enterprise AI with training disabled and limited data retention, and training staff to treat every AI prompt as public information.

(Natural News)—In the global stampede to adopt artificial intelligence, a chilling reality is coming into focus: the very tools promised to secure our digital future are becoming its greatest vulnerability. As corporations race to integrate AI, cybersecurity experts warn that these systems are simultaneously creating unprecedented pathways for data breaches, identity theft and corporate espionage. This crisis, born from a headlong rush into a new technological era, threatens the privacy and security of every individual and organization.

The warning signs are stark. A 2025 Accenture report revealed a staggering 90 percent of companies lack the modernized infrastructure to defend against AI-driven threats. This year alone, the Identity Theft Resource Center has confirmed 1,732 data breaches, fueled by increasingly sophisticated AI-powered phishing attacks.

The fundamental issue lies in the architecture of AI itself. These systems are vast, data-hungry engines. To function, they must absorb immense volumes of information, and this insatiable appetite creates a critical vulnerability. When an employee inputs sensitive business data—strategy documents or client information—that information is absorbed into a system over which the company may have little control. One expert likened the practice to pinning confidential files on a public noticeboard and hoping no one makes a copy.

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Why Newspapers and The News Are Not Only A Dying Model, But Dead

“I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.” – Thomas Jefferson

I don’t subscribe to the newspaper anymore, but I got one this morning.  I’m sure that it was a teaser to try to get me to subscribe.  Upon reading it, I realized I already knew everything in the paper except the local high school football scores from games after I went to bed.

A DYING MODEL

The subscription rates to newspapers are dying, not even a slow death.  Similarly, the evening news is also a dinosaur.  They report what we knew as much as a full day before.

I am on twitter and read blogs all day long.  I occasionally go to the news sites,  but as I discuss below, their bias (I hold both left and right guilty equally here) usually makes me fact check what I’m trying to find out which defeats the purpose of fact-finding, especially if it involves politics. That subject is pretty much unavoidable these days.

Nevertheless, I enjoy many other subjects which you could read about it on other blog entries if you have nothing better to do, and I find good information about them that is interesting and INSTANT.

I’m a boomer, although a technically savvy one having been in the IT industry all my life.  The Gen X,Y, millennials,  and whomever follows them demand even more instantaneous everything virtually dooming the news model of our prior generation.  Thank you Internet.

THE END OF THE BASTIONS OF NEWS

We have establish that we are now used to getting information instantaneously.  The other reason that the model is dying is that they are biased.  This is ok if you are a neo-con or a loony lefty, but for everyone else (the other 80% given 10% on the edges of left and right) we don’t trust them anymore.

Once, these two sources were the basis of our world and local information.  Besides being static rather than dynamic, they also have stopped being factual sources of information, rather they are partisan, with Fox on one side and CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN, NBC, MSNBC, NYT, WAPO, LA TImes, Reuters, AP, HuffPo, Local News, Local Papers and most other news sources on the other side of issues.  All are positioned in a place that position the facts from a point of view.   Some of them blatantly lie.   Reporting was supposed to be the facts of the story that let the reader make up their mind on their position.

We’ve actually learned that the news has been biased for at least as long as there has been television, we just didn’t have the instant fact checking that the internet and the other sources have provided.

There is a joke from Bernie Goldberg that said if they had been reporting on Moses at Mt. Sinai, the headline would read “Moses get the 10 Commandments from God, and here are the two that we think are important to you”.

Walter Cronkite said that the Viet Nam war was lost during the time that we were winning.  LBJ said that if he’d lost Cronkite, he’d lost America.  We’ve since learned that the then “most trusted man in America” was also one of the most biased.

LIFE MOVES ON

Other things have died and we have lived and moved on.  Black and white TV, network only channels vs. cable TV and landline phones vs. mobile (cell for those in the US) phones.  Such is the fate of newspapers and TV network news.  Here is just one fact concerning the NYT declining rates.  I’m sure you could find somewhere that their subscriptions are increasing, but this would seem deceitful given the nature of digital delivery.

So am I disturbed by this trend?  Actually I didn’t even notice it until I saw the paper in my yard this morning.  I haven’t subscribed for news in many years (note: I get the Sunday paper for the coupons as long as they pay for the 1 day delivery – my sister calls me a tightwad but it leads to becoming this).

I get my news from the above stated sources and know more about what is going on than the anchors have time to present in their biases manner.

So as they say, life moves on.