Thing is, the victims of the hacks are big companies with money and lawyers, too. Additionally, a legal landscape where hacking is not illegal when done with AI would be much more difficult or even impossible to conduct business in, so the entirety of the business world will have a stake in that legal outcome.
In an age of business consolidation and vertical integration, I think you’re going to have a split. Big businesses on the oligarch level, these hacks become cost of doing business/future conflict analogous to nation-states, while the smaller businesses are effectively cannibalized, or forced to sell to their local big business conglomerate asap before their shit is outright stolen.
Thing is, the victims of the hacks are big companies with money and lawyers, too. Additionally, a legal landscape where hacking is not illegal when done with AI would be much more difficult or even impossible to conduct business in, so the entirety of the business world will have a stake in that legal outcome.
In an age of business consolidation and vertical integration, I think you’re going to have a split. Big businesses on the oligarch level, these hacks become cost of doing business/future conflict analogous to nation-states, while the smaller businesses are effectively cannibalized, or forced to sell to their local big business conglomerate asap before their shit is outright stolen.