Anthropic deputy chief information security officer Jason D. Clinton expects cyber threats to worsen before they improve. On October 22, he urged security leaders to ask their boards for immediate help with basic defenses rather than AI. Organizations would need to hold on for roughly 18 months, he wrote.
Clinton was revisiting his own August 20 warning. He had feared that a wave of newly discovered vulnerabilities would leave critical-infrastructure operators too little time to patch them. He called for stronger isolation of sensitive networks.
In a further October 22 reply, Clinton explained why he expects conditions to improve later. He predicted that strong cyber capabilities would reach small, inexpensive models, allowing developers to stop shipping new security flaws permanently. That is his forecast; he supplied neither measured effectiveness nor a substantiated deadline.
Salesforce chief executive Marc Benioff agreed with the linked warning in his own short comment. His agreement concerns Clinton’s warning and appeal for basic defenses. He announced neither a Salesforce measure nor a joint initiative in that post.
Clinton identified no individual recent incidents in his new post and did not say they were connected. The warning therefore does not establish an AI cause for outages reported around the same time.