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By now, we’ve all seen the announcements of AI powering many aspects of computing. As an IT pro, what are the most important contributions AI can make to cybersecurity? Consider this an AI wish list for security features!

I’ll start the discussion with an example: I would like to see AI handle inbound attacks without our intervention and send IT a notification that AI took action to protect against an inbound threat on a specific port/channel/connection. This gives IT the opportunity to investigate when time is available. What’s on your AI wish list?

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Honestly the one thing I want AI to is the one thing it probably can’t: go away and don’t come back no more.

Am I the only one that feels like this?

While AI can certainly help us protect our networks, I don’t think it will ever get in front of those seeking to attack / infiltrate our networks. In the end it is has the potential to make our lives a complete nightmare.

Not to mention how sick I am of every single thing having “AI”, and how somehow that makes it so inherently good I should just buy it without vetting it. It might be the worst IT buzzterm of all time.

Feel free to convince me why I should feel differently about this topic.

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I would like it to learn how to say “I don’t know” - and stop lying and just making up things!

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I would like to see IT reign in the use of AI. Until AI learns enough to actually be useful to the point of being trusted enough to perform useful functions, it shouldn’t be rolled out to critical software. As a notifier, and minimal responder there is no issue, but I don’t trust it enough to actually resolve a breach attempt. Too often, it’s taking the same stab in the dark and resolving the issue as confident 4 year old in a batman costume declaring the bad guy is gone.

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AI as it is now being commonly used needs to just die a sudden death due to intellectual property issues alone. Let alone that there is not a single security issue that it can help with that it won’t be used to exacerbate to an even greater degree.
Currently it is half-baked, and use concerns need to be formalized and legislated before further integration into production processes, creative or otherwise.

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I would like “AI” services/outputs to specify whether a machine learning model is being used or not, so I can tell if I’m being sold some non-deterministic black box software that not even the vendor can predict or control, or if they just mean the software can take in lots of data and make human-designed decisions based on it.

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I would like AI to fix print spooler issues.

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I’d like to see AI get slowed down, way down. It’s growing too fast and we need to come up with ways of stopping its use in cybercrime before we go any further. We are already seeing attacks using it, and the last thing we need is to hand the bad guys even better tools for screwing the rest of us.!

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Wow, thank you all for the replies! Many IT pros have expressed similar sentiment. Personally, I want to see more ways to deploy the technology to assist IT professionals!

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I’ll go a step further; I would like AI to fix all printer issues.

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I’m still laughing while replying to this one. I agree, printer issues should be one of the top priorities for AI! :joy:

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