AI-Powered Cybersecurity: Opportunities, Challenges, and Ethical Implications
Introduction With the rapid rise of Artificial Intelligence (AI) advancements recently, many questions arise, such as: “Does artificial intelligence pose a threat to humanity?”, “Will we be replaced by AI?”, “What is the future of AI?”, and many more, the list could go on forever. Essentially, Artificial Intelligence is a set of technologies that can perform a wide range of complex functions, such as being able to see, execute tasks, and analyze data. A lot of the tasks that AI could potentially do, and can do currently, align with enhancing cybersecurity. Background Artificial Intelligence did not just start being invented recently; in fact, it has been in development/conceptualized since the 1950’s. Alan Turing, considered to be known as the “father of artificial intelligence”, was able to publish a proposal that was for a test to distinguish between humans and AI and this test was called the Turing Test. During the year 1952, ...