Is AI cybersecurity's salvation or its greatest threat?

If you're uncertain whether AI is the best or worst thing to ever happen to cybersecurity, you're in the same boat as experts watching the dawn of this new era with a mix of excitement and terror. AI's potential to automate security on a broader scale offers a welcome advantage in the short term. Yet unleashing a technology designed to eventually take humans out of the equation as much as possible naturally gives the industry some pause. There is an undercurrent of fear about the consequences if things run amok or attackers learn to make better use of the technology. "Everything you invent to defend yourself can also eventually be used against you," said Geert van der Linden, an executive vice president of cybersecurity for Capgemini.