Compared to the simple chatbots of 2022, today's AI systems pose a greater economic, social, and security risk. Global reports indicate that the threat is not only fake content and data leaks but also the disruption of the labor market, states coming under pressure, and increased social tension.
Just a few years ago, generative artificial intelligence (AI) was presented to the general public primarily as a chatbot that wrote text, answered questions, and sometimes made obvious mistakes. By the end of 2022, this technology seemed more like an interesting innovation, a productivity tool, and a digital assistant accelerating daily tasks. However, by 2026, the landscape has fundamentally changed. Today, advanced AI systems analyze long documents, work with files, understand images and text together, connect to tools, sequentially perform multi-stage tasks, and are already integrated into the user's workflow, decision-making, and even infrastructure-level operations.
This change might seem like technological progress at first glance. But the real issue is that as AI's power increases, the risks it creates grow at the same pace. The problem is no longer just about giving wrong answers. New generation systems spread misinformation faster, make fraud more