The Internet Didn't Catch Fire. But AI Just Exposed Its Cracks.
The third chapter in a developing story about agentic AI, cybersecurity, and digital trust Imagine waking up to discover that the locks protecting millions of digital doors may not be as secure as we believed. Some doors lead to ordinary websites. Others lead to government services, customer records, business platforms, and financial information. That is the uncomfortable picture emerging from several cybersecurity developments this week. The internet has not collapsed, and there is no reason for everyone to abandon it. But the events of October 2026 deserve our attention for a much more important reason: artificial intelligence is changing the speed at which weaknesses in our digital world can be discovered, exploited, and repaired. From an early warning to a real-world test For me, this story did not begin with this week's security alerts. In June 2025, I published “From Chatbots to Cyber-Worms: Why the Age of Agentic AI Demands Radical Rethinking of ...