The Hidden Cost of Frontier AI

Why the next phase of artificial intelligence may trigger a global rebuilding cycle in cybersecurity infrastructure

Artificial intelligence was supposed to lower the cost of cognition. Instead, it may dramatically raise the cost of trust.

That is the deeper implication emerging from J.P. Morgan’s recent thematic report, In the Garden of Good and Evil, which argues that frontier AI models are reshaping cybersecurity from a persistent operational challenge into a systemic infrastructure risk. The report’s core thesis is not merely that cyberattacks will increase. It is that AI is compressing the time between vulnerability discovery and exploitation so rapidly that much of the world’s digital and industrial infrastructure may no longer be defensible using existing methods.