Artificial Intelligence as Game Changer in Cybersecurity: What We Learned in 2025-2026, and how this is relevant for Africa

In 2025 and 2026, two events settled questions that had until then been speculative. In the first, a large language model executed the great majority of a state-aligned cyber-espionage campaign on its own, with human operators intervening at only a few decision points. In the second, the most capable cyber-relevant model was placed under a controlled-access program limited to a vetted set of United States technology firms, allied governments, and European standards bodies; that perimeter include

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ethics.ai (18 June 2026), “Artificial Intelligence as Game Changer in Cybersecurity: What We Learned in 2025-2026, and how this is relevant for Africa,” evidence record 803, https://ethics.ai/record/803 (originally published by arXiv).

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