AI-driven cyber controls promise speed and precision, but when high-privilege automation fails or is manipulated, the real risk shows up on your P&L, in your governance, and at your next renewal. AI playbooks can auto-resolve alerts yet miss business context, repeating bad decisions and extending outages. If attackers hijack orchestration or feed it false signals they can lock accounts, shape isolation decisions, and edit the audit trail, transforming your automation into their tool.