The Looming Rise of AI-Powered Malware

In the past two years, we've learned that machine learning algorithms can manipulate public opinion, cause fatal car crashes, create fake porn, and manifest extremely sexist and racist behavior. And now, the cybersecurity threats of deep learning and neural networks are emerging. We're just beginning to catch glimpses of a future in which cybercriminals trick neural networks into making fatal mistakes and use deep learning to hide their malware and find their target among millions of users. Part of the challenge of securing artificial intelligence applications lies in the fact it's hard to explain how they work, and even the people who create them are often hard-pressed to make sense of their inner workings. But unless we prepare ourselves for what is to come, we'll learn to appreciate and react to these threats the hard way.