AI Will Be a Double-Edged Sword in Future Cyber Conflicts

"Artificial Intelligence and machine learning … [are] foundational to the future of cybersecurity. We have got to work our way through how we're going to deal with this. It is not the if, it's only the when to me," Adm. Mike Rogers, former chief of the National Security Agency and U.S. Cyber Command, remarked in an interview. During his presidency, Barack Obama shared his concerns about an attacker using artificial intelligence (AI) to access launch codes for nuclear weapons. "If that's its only job, if it's self-teaching and it's just a really effective algorithm, then you've got problems," Obama said.