I · D3 · 3.4
AI-generated phishing
Fluent, personalized emails at scale.
Major · 4Documented at scaleNowRisk 20
Severity
4/5
Likelihood
5/5
In the hierarchy
- Part I: Technical & System Concerns
- D3. Security & Adversarial Risk
- 3.4 AI-enabled cyberattacks
Virtues and principles to explore
Held as inquiry, not as a verdict.
Stewardship
Service
Hold what is built in trust for those who will live with it.
Prudence
Excellence
Small, reversible steps before irreversible ones.
Accountability
Trust
Name who holds the consequence before it is needed.
Starter questions
Written to probe curiosity and learning, not accusation.
- 01If a colleague raised this concern tomorrow, how would we receive it as inquiry rather than accusation?
- 02What capacity would we need — in people, in the institution, in the tools — to meet this well?
- 03What would Accountability require of us here, before we proceed?
- 04What might we be missing if we treat “AI-generated phishing” only as a technical problem?
Also on this branch
Frameworks and sources
- OWASP GenAI LLM Top 10 (2026)framework
- MITRE ATLASframework
Writing and incidents
Open indexes first. Then, if you wish, ask Grok to search the live web for this concern — one request, cached for the rest of this session.
Attacks on and through AI systems: injection, jailbreaks, cyber offense.