An AI (Artificial Intelligence) sign is seen at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) in Shanghai, China July 6, 2023.
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When leaders at technology giants including Amazon, Google, Meta, and Microsoft met with President Joe Biden last month, they pledged to follow artificial intelligence safeguards designed to make sure their AI tools are safe before releasing them to the public.
Among their commitments is robust testing of AI systems to guard against one of the most significant areas of risk: cybersecurity.
The role that generative AI plays in making ransomware attacks and phishing schemes easier and more ubiquitous is not lost on chief information security officers and other cyber leaders trying to stay on top of this fast-moving technology.
“Cyber vulnerabilities are becoming democratized,” said Collin R. Walke, head of law firm Hall Estill’s cybersecurity and data privacy practice. More and more individuals have the capabilities of hackers, using things like ransomware-as-a-service and AI, and for CISOs and other cyber leaders, the rapid adoption of generative AI “changes the threat landscape tremendously,” he said.
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