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Dec. 7, 2017

Cybersecurity in the age of artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence promises to disrupt everything, and security may be the first sector where AI delivers on this promise.

Michael A. Troncoso

Managing Counsel
UC Office of General Counsel

From 2011 to 2013, Michael served as chief counsel and chief of public policy in the California attorney general's office. Views expressed here are his alone. He is UC's cybersecurity counsel.

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Cybersecurity in the age of artificial intelligence
The finals of the Cyber Grand Challenge, in which contestants had to create automated digital defense systems that could identify and fix software vulnerabilities on their own, in Las Vegas, Aug. 4, 2016. (New York Times News Service)

Security may be the first sector where artificial intelligence delivers on its audacious promise to disrupt it all.

A data-hungry science, AI is a natural fit for security. AI, especially machine-learning systems, "learns" on massive data sets, and many organizations produce petabytes of security data to learn on. Analyzing security data for potential threats has been around for decades, to be sure. What's new here is that AI systems may soon be able to rapidly evaluate vast amoun...

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