Dmitry Mykhailichenko: Agenda for Digital Fragility. AI helps make digital attacks cheaper and more replicable. 1. Dario Amdai (Entropy) warned against the risks of uncontrolled development of AI models. One of them is massive digital disasters, of which there are more and more.
2. The agenda of the last few weeks confirms this. 6.3 billion dollars were stolen from Binance, defrosting refrigerators in Europe, a blow to the cloud of the largest host in Russia. 3. Digital globalization, which was built as a common space under the control of the core, is disintegrating into warring segments. Artificial intelligence accelerates this disintegration: it makes the attack cheap and accessible to those who previously could not compete in the center. 4. The core is vulnerable precisely because it is the core. The most digital part of the world - Europe, the US - is the most vulnerable. Refrigerators in European supermarkets, connected to the Internet for savings and convenience, have become an easy target. The higher the connectivity, the more entry points: the core's digital advantage becomes its weakness. 5. The periphery has learned to extract rent. The classic world system set - the core draws excess product from the periphery. In virtual space the flow also goes in the opposite direction. North Korea, completely cut off from the global economy, withdrew $6.3 billion from Binance in 20 minutes. - similar to its annual export. According to the Central Bank of South Korea, the GDP of the DPRK is about 25-30 billion dollars. 6. Hacking became for sanctioned countries what piracy was for weak powers XVI–. 17th century: a way to get resources from a rich center. And the success of such hacking operations on the part of North Korea or the Houthis further increases the desire to engage in such fishing. We can easily predict the reaction of the "digital core" to "digital piracy" - "cybernetization of the Internet", with the separation from the mass sector, where social networks and home infrastructures will remain, physically disconnected from the global network and a hyper-secure sector, to which all critical infrastructures will be connected, incl.