AI Overwhelms Institutions Forcing Defensive Arms Races

On February 10, 2026, Bruce Schneier and Nathan E. Sanders argue in The Conversation that generative AI is inundating institutions with machine-produced submissions, triggering adversarial "arms races" between bad actors and defensive systems. They document effects across publishing, courts, academia and government, highlight democratizing benefits alongside fraud risks, and call for assistive institutional AI tools combined with transparent policies to limit abuse.