This short video was a fun part of my AI-cybersecurity work in 2025
As one year ends and another begins I find it helpful to look back at what I managed to accomplish over the last 12 months, even as I plan for the next 12. Back when the study of cybersecurity was my full time job, this process was an annual ritual, often embodied in weighty reports that sought to capture the implications of one year's cybercrimes for the next year's defensive strategies. ----- D R A F T -----
Around the middle of 2019, cybersecurity ceased to be my full-time job as I retired from my role as senior security researcher at ESET, one of the leading makers of security software. My intention at the the time was to move to England to support my mother who was entering her nineties, write my next book, and put out content that might attract some conference speaking, teaching, and consulting work.
Unfortunately, I had not factored in the UK government's growing hostility to foreigners, including my American wife. She was forced to undergo a deeply distressing immigrant visa process and suffered a serious brain haemorrhage before she received permission to enter the country. That turn of events resulted in me becoming primary carer/caregiver for two people, my nonagenarian mum and my brain-damaged wife.
What does all that have to do with my 2025 output? Well, as you can see from the following snippets, my attention has been split in several directions. There's cybercrime of course, particularly the tension between institutions urging people to "just go online" and the grim reality that having any kind of online presence these days increases your chances of being scammed, defrauded, stalked, or otherwise assaulted and abused. I posted some of my work on this to Substack, a platform I started to use more in 2025.
Quite a lot of my output related to artificial intelligence, partly because I got several AI-related teaching gigs in 2025. One of these was at dghfdghdf, Massachusetts where I presented two versions of my "AI and Cybersecurity" class. In May, I was invited to conduct a three-hour online course with the grand title of AI and Cybersecurity: Seizing the Opportunities, Defending Against the Threats, Navigating Legal Risks (currently available to purchase, but I don't get any royalties).
June
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/ai-should-know-wrong-sharp-edge-jagged-stephen-cobb-eys1e/
AI should know this is wrong: the sharp edge of jagged AI
July
ChatGPT Says Cybercrime Is a Pervasive and Damaging Global Threat, Other AI Agree
https://medium.com/@zcobb/chatgpt-says-cybercrime-is-a-pervasive-and-damaging-global-threat-other-ai-agree-5d7ebc614987
What AI says about cybercrime, now and in the future (warning: it's very bleak)
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/what-ai-says-cybercrime-now-future-warning-its-very-bleak-cobb-cgmbc
August
An Open Letter to World Leaders from ChatGPT-5
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/open-letter-world-leaders-from-chatgpt-5-stephen-cobb-2g8ie
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