•What does AI have to do with cybersecurity?
- Artificial Intelligence (AI) has emerged as a great solution for building smarter and safer security systems that allow you to predict and detect suspicious network activities, such as phishing or unauthorized intrusions, in your network.
- In the near future, companies and organizations will increasingly need to invest in automated analysis tools that enable a rapid and adequate response to current and future cybersecurity challenges.
- Therefore, the scenario that is looming is actually a combination of skills, rather than a clash between human operators and machines.
- It is therefore likely that the AI within the field of cybersecurity will take charge of the dirty work, that is, the selection of potential suspect cases, leaving the most advanced tasks to the security analysts, letting them investigate in more depth the threats that deserve the most attention.
•How do the social sciences inform our understanding about the interconnection between AI and cybersecurity?
- When dealing with the topic of applying AI to cybersecurity, the reactions from insiders are often ambivalent.
- In fact, reactions of skepticism alternate with conservative attitudes, partly caused by the fear that machines will supplant human operators, despite the high technical and professional skills of humans, acquired from years of hard work.
- When AI takes over repetitive or dangerous tasks, it frees up the human workforce to do work they are better equipped for—tasks that involve creativity and empathy among others. If people are doing work that is more engaging for them, it could increase happiness and job satisfaction.
- Artificial intelligence algorithms are powered by data. As more and more data is collected about every single minute of every person’s day, our privacy gets compromised. If businesses and governments decide to make decisions based on the intelligence they gather about you like China is doing with its social credit system, it could devolve into social oppression.