October 6, 2026 Read on mathbabe.org
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Oh look, banks are being hacked by AI

AI & MLFinanceData EthicsAlgorithms

In a terse, nine-word post, O'Neil flags a WSJ report about hackers leveraging a Chinese AI tool to attack South Korean banks. Her commentary is minimal but pointed: the sardonic 'Oh look' signals that this was entirely predictable, and 'This is just the beginning' frames the incident not as an anomaly but as the opening chapter of AI-enabled financial crime. The post functions less as analysis and more as a told-you-so bookmark — O'Neil's way of noting that the risks critics warned about are now arriving in the real world.

The weaponization of AI against financial institutions is not a surprise to those who have been paying attention — it's the predictable consequence of deploying powerful tools without adequate safeguards.
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    Oh look, banks are being hacked by AI.

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    This is just the beginning.

sardonic, ominous