Eric O’Neill on Chatbot Attachment, Social Engineering, and AI-Era Cybersecurity

How do emotional bonds with chatbots reshape cybersecurity risk for individuals and organizations?

Eric O’Neill is a Washington, DC–based cybersecurity expert, attorney, and former FBI counterterrorism and counterintelligence “ghost” operative. In 2001, he helped expose Robert Hanssen, the FBI veteran who spied for Russia, an operation dramatized in the film Breach and detailed in O’Neill’s book Gray Day. He now leads The Georgetown Group, an investi…