Artificial intelligence and cybersecurity: The future is here.

The ability of machines to rapidly analyze and respond to the unprecedented quantities of data is becoming indispensable as cyber attacks' frequency, scale and sophistication all continue to increase. The research being done today shows that automated cybersecurity systems can do many things with only limited human oversight. Through neural networks, heuristics, data science, etc. systems are being designed to identify cyber attacks, to spot and remove malware, and to find ways to fix bugs faster than any human could. In some respects, this work is simply an extension of the principles that people have got used to in their mail-filters or firewalls. That being said, there is something qualitatively different about the AI's "endgame", i.e. having cybersecurity decisions taken by technology without human intermediation.