Artificial Intelligence, Ethics and Society

Just rambling here a bit…brainstorming…

I think as an industry, we tend to overestimate the short term gain of new technologies and under estimate the long term impacts of the same.  

 I’m not a “shinny penny” INFOSEC practitioner, not usually an early adopter, however, when it comes to “…artificial intelligence…” I think I can see the future clearly.  From a business perspective, AI will fundamentally and in a statistically significant manner change the Information Security Game in many ways.

Today, most INFOSEC defense approaches are static.  I’m a big proponent of dynamic defense but most folks I know in the industry are not.

It’s inevitable that AI will be leveraged to tilt the playing field in ways that we can’t fathom today, but we should be giving it some thought, alot of thought! …when AI based “Attack/Defend” battles come (they won’t be exploits, they’ll be like actual military combat), it’ll come on like a tidal wave, when we’re breathing a sigh of relief about repelling the next “wanna cry” variant…  it won’t be prepare for breach, it’ll be like watching two trains colliding head on, in slow motion, knowing that your family is on that train.

It will be a continuous "...relentless strike..." the Military doesn't refer to it as the "...forward edge of the battle space...(a.k.a., "meat grinder") for no reason!

There will be winners, losers and survivors…Haves and never will haves, no more have nots.

We should either be actively looking for a vendor who is preparing an AI based Attack/Defend capability or passively putting feelers out.  This will be like purchasing insurance, you hope you’ll never need it, but your eternally grateful that when you need it, you had it.

Come to think of it, why would you even trust the vendor selling you AI capabilities?  Where is the upside / profit in selling you something that will, in an autonomous manner, constantly be improving itself?  This fly's in the face of each and every current technology solution provider vendor on the planet.

Just my .02 cents worth.

"...this business will get out of control!..."