--- title: Schneier on Security | daily.dev description: Bruce Schneier and Ada Palmer examine how AI is widening the gap between skill and ability, enabling people without technical expertise to carry out... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/schneier-on-security-y2es8nl8e twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Schneier on Security | daily.dev og:description: Bruce Schneier and Ada Palmer examine how AI is widening the gap between skill and ability, enabling people without technical expertise to carry out... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/schneier-on-security-y2es8nl8e og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/y2Es8NL8E.png og:image:alt: Schneier on Security og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Schneier on Security **[Schneier on Security](https://daily.dev/sources/schneier)** · 5 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Bruce Schneier and Ada Palmer examine how AI is widening the gap between skill and ability, enabling people without technical expertise to carry out sophisticated cyberattacks. Drawing on the Five Eyes agencies' joint security statement, they argue that AI acts as a universal adviser for harmful actions, that guardrails on frontier models won't hold because open-source alternatives will proliferate without restrictions, and that the same AI knowledge enabling defense also enables offense. The core takeaway: the security advice hasn't changed, only the urgency has, and AI must be harnessed for defense across all risk domains. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [In AI security, there’s no room for a defender’s mindset](https://daily.dev/posts/in-ai-security-there-s-no-room-for-a-defender-s-mindset-6dn6qc530) · The New Stack · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [AI Is Getting Scarily Good at Finding Security Vulnerabilities. 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