Can A.I. Defend Our Financial Institutions Against Hackers?

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. The author is a Forbes contributor. The opinions expressed are those of the writer. Hackers have become increasingly sophisticated at obscuring their footsteps, at times flooding systems with fake alerts to distract from truly insidious ones. Researchers from MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) demonstrated that a virtual AI security analyst trained by human experts accurately identifies 85% of attacks, beating previous benchmarks by a factor of three while reducing false positives by a factor of five.