I would not ordinarily promote an advertisement, but this one from a company called DarkTrace, on an email to subscribers from the MIT Technology Review, is so alarming and revealing I feel compelled to share it. The Chinese and Russians must be using AI tools to attack American computer systems, as revealed by the SolarWinds hack. Russian and to perhaps a lesser extent Chinese operatives were able to penetrate SolarWinds’ software used in cloud computing systems and other advanced systems throughout the U.S. economy and government. There were other vectors in this highly sophisticated attack involving software supply chains. This is a technological arms race. We can now see the ultimate negative impact of AI. Whoever is best at developing AI cyber attack systems will prevail. Is America ready? Here’s the ad:
Malicious AI: Not Just Sci-Fi
Malicious AI refers to the use of AI and machine learning to augment offensive cyber-attacks, enabling adversaries to launch highly targeted and sophisticated attack campaigns at greater speed and scale than ever before.
AI will supercharge the mission on multiple fronts, creating stealthier, faster and more effective attacks which blend into normal background activity, and which are almost impossible to counter using traditional security controls.
In the face of malicious AI, only defensive AI can meaningfully fight back. Autonomous Response technology leverages AI to generate surgical responses to in-progress cyber-attacks as soon as they appear. Today, Autonomous Response responds to a cyber-threat somewhere in the world every 2 seconds.
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