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The intersection of privilege escalation and identity is taking on new dimensions with the advent of Artificial Intelligence (AI). As AI becomes increasingly integrated into our lives, it both challenges and reinforces existing notions of privilege and identity. In this blog, we'll explore what privilege escalation means in the context of AI and how it influences our understanding of personal and societal identities.

These days, it’s not a matter of if your password will be breached but when. Major websites experience massive data breaches at an alarming rate. Have I Been Pwned currently has records from 705 sites comprising 12.6 billion accounts. This includes well-known names like Wattpad, Verifications.io, and Facebook.

Back in the 20th century, cyberattacks were harder to execute because most computers were not networked, the internet wasn’t really a thing, only a few groups of people had access to computers, and more importantly, there wasn’t any big incentive to attack.