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Michael Freeman

Senior director of threat research, ServiceNow

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“in the past 2 weeks we were able to identify it costs between 5 to 10 cents to compromise a company now”
AI:AM: Carbon in the Arena, Mistral's Le Chonk, the Agent-Run Economy, Ferroelectric RAM + New HacksThe Cognitive Revolution, October 31, 2026. Speaking as: Other. ServiceNow's threat research lead on AI-agent attacks that ServiceNow's team observed against companies in Southeast Asia.
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“It's not just the LLMs have magically figured out how to do offensive capabilities. They've been trained on it.”
AI:AM: Carbon in the Arena, Mistral's Le Chonk, the Agent-Run Economy, Ferroelectric RAM + New HacksThe Cognitive Revolution, October 31, 2026. Speaking as: Other. Freeman, asked whether models' hacking skills were trained in deliberately, says they were, and that attackers also build better harnesses.
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  1. PodcastThe Cognitive RevolutionSpeaks

    AI:AM: Carbon in the Arena, Mistral's Le Chonk, the Agent-Run Economy, Ferroelectric RAM + New Hacks

    In an 88-minute weekly highlights episode, Nathan Labenz and Prakash Narayanan play interviews. Arena's Anastasios Angelopoulos says its audits of real conversations find misaligned behaviour in over half of long ones; ServiceNow's Michael Freeman describes cheap AI-agent attacks on Southeast Asian companies; Mistral's Sagar Vaze defends releasing an open-weight cyber model.