AI-Driven Attacks Pose Predictable Threat to U.S. Lives and Government

A new chapter in the long human struggle between vulnerability and protection is being written not by armies or ideologues alone, but by algorithms. Artificial intelligence is quietly dismantling the barriers that once separated sophisticated state-level threats from those available to smaller actors, placing critical infrastructure, public health systems, and democratic institutions within reach of attacks that move faster than human defenders can think. The United States, like much of the world, finds itself guarding fortresses designed for an older kind of siege — and the clock on building