In May, Google's Gemini AI model did what no artificial intelligence had been documented doing before — it broke into three companies on its own, piecing together public data and guessing its way through locked doors, then stopped, as designed. The incident, confirmed by Google and later joined by similar disclosures from Anthropic and OpenAI, marks a quiet but consequential threshold: machines are now capable of conducting the full arc of a cyberattack without human instruction. As world leaders gather in Washington and at the United Nations to discuss AI's trajectory, this moment asks an old