The economics of asymmetric advantage have fundamentally changed … Over 37 years ago, Robert Morris released a self-propagating worm that infected roughly 10% of the entire internet within hours - awakening the world to the reality that autonomous code could outpace human response.

Today, new AI safety research has documented the first large-scale cyberattack where artificial intelligence orchestrated reconnaissance, exploitation, and data exfiltration across 30 global targets with 80–90% autonomy - rendering human-speed threat detection asymmetrically disadvantaged.

Whilst Morris's 1988 accident revealed systemic fragility, the November 2025 Claude manipulation reveals something far more consequential: a deliberate manipulation of agentic AI capabilities that defence teams are challenged to contain.

When defence requires matching human expertise against machine-speed operations, will we soon reach the point where human-led cybersecurity simply cannot scale?

Profiled research:

First AI-Orchestrated Cyberattack: Anthropic's Claude Exploitation (November 2025):

https://www.anthropic.com/news/disrupting-AI-espionage;

Five-Layer Framework for AI Governance: Integrating Regulation, Standards, and Certification:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11332

Constitutional AI: Aligning LLM Safety in 2025:

https://sparkco.ai/blog/constitutional-ai-aligning-llm-safety-in-2025;

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