Advancing AI. Amplifying Impact.

AI is making cyberattacks cheaper, faster, and more sophisticated. Recent reports of autonomous agents compromising Hugging Face show how quickly misaligned systems can create real-world risk. But ideally those same tools could help defenders find and fix vulnerabilities before attackers exploit them. Professor V.S. Subrahmanian joined host Jess Love on the "Life, Automated" podcast to examine the impact of that escalating race on everything from phishing scams and insecure apps to the systems that underpin the electric grid and other critical infrastructure.

Northwestern University physicists developed a mathematical framework that identifies when disorder can actually make a system more stable. The team, led by Professor Adilson Motter, found that many physical, engineered and biological complex systems can become more stable when their components, or the interactions among them, are different.