Autonomous Cyber Weapons - The Future of Crime?

In recent presentations, I have been theorising about how advances in technology might change the threat landscape, and one such advance I think will lead to a much more fundamental change than any other. That technology is the field of artificial intelligence (AI). My original prediction of criminal co-opting of AI dates back to a panel I was on at IPExpo in London in 2017. At the time I was challenged by a journalist to give a clearer account of myself but my thoughts were very much in embryonic form. To tell you the truth, I had only articulated those thoughts when I was asked the question of "What keeps me up at night?" up on that stage.