Deception and Detection: Why AI Empowers Cyber Defense over Offense

Professor Lennart Maschmeyer from the Georgia Institute of Technology will give a presentation at the MIT Security Studies Program's Wednesday Seminar. Summary: Many have predicted that AI will revolutionize cyber conflict by enabling offense automation for faster, stealthier, and more damaging attacks. But the revolution has not happened, even though highly capable AI models have been available for several years. The article that Professor Maschmeyer presents in this seminar explains why: There is a gap between defense and offense when it comes to the limits on what AI can do. Cyber offense r