Ameren states that widespread adoption of generative and agentic AI may increase cyber attack risks.
“There has been an increase in the number and sophistication of physical and cyber attacks across all industries worldwide. Physical attacks could include sabotaging, vandalizing, or burglarizing transmission and distribution facilities, which are unmanned, widely dispersed, and often in isolated areas, or the theft of physical data and information. Cyber attacks could include viruses, malicious or destructive code, social engineering attacks, denial of service attacks, supply chain attacks, ransomware and other extortion-based attacks, improper access by third parties, attacks on email systems, and attacks leading to data loss, including data stored using cloud technologies, operational control, or exploitation of vulnerabilities specific to internally developed systems or to those provided and/or maintained by our suppliers. This also includes attacks arising from or generated by artificial intelligence, among various other attempts to compromise systems that can lead to security breaches. In addition, the increasingly widespread adoption of artificial intelligence technologies, including generative and agentic artificial intelligence, may increase, accelerate, or enhance cyber attacks and other operational, legal, privacy, and reputational risks in our industry and worldwide. Also, remote working arrangements could increase our data security risks, including loss of data related to sensitive customer, employee, financial, and operating system information, through insider or”