Cybersecurity Bosses Fretting About AI Attacks and Misuse

Nearly a quarter of cybersecurity bosses said their companies have experienced an attack powered by artificial intelligence in the past year, according to a new survey in which AI risk emerged as the defining challenge.

The number of AI-enabled attacks is likely underestimated because they are often hard to differentiate from human-led efforts, according to a report from the Tel Aviv-based venture fund Team8, which focuses on cybersecurity, AI, data, fintech and digital health. For the survey, the firm queried about 110 chief information security officers, who expressed both fear of malicious uses of AI and hope that it ...