Government officials: AI threat detection still needs humans

Artificial intelligence provides enormous benefits for cyber threat detection, but the technology can't do the job alone. That was the primary message during a session at the Ai4 2022 Cybersecurity Summit featuring two government cybersecurity professionals -- Garfield Jones, associate chief of strategic technology for the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and Peter Gallinari, data privacy officer for the state of Tennessee. The duo discussed the promise of AI threat detection and fielded questions about what they saw as the future of such technology, the potential challenges and how humans will fit into the picture. Jones made it clear early in the panel that every cybersecurity system implementing AI will still require human involvement. "My perspective on this is that AI definitely has a future in threat detection and response," Jones said.