MIT reveals AI that can detect 85pc of cyberattacks and gets smarter every day

Artificial intelligence (AI) developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) can already detect 85pc of cyberattacks and is getting smarter every day, according to the institute. Scientists at MIT's prestigious Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) have developed AI that they believe can create a line of defence against the numerous cyberattacks that have crippled government agencies, health insurers and many others. And they have also claimed that their AI can detect attacks on networks as they happen 85pc of the time. 'That human-machine interaction creates a beautiful, cascading effect' – KALYAN VEERAMACHANENI, CSAIL This is particularly important because the industry standard for threat detection is typically 100 days. AI2, short for Artificial Intelligence Squared, looks at data to detect suspicious activity. It does so by clustering the data into meaningful patterns and then presents its findings to human analysts who identify which events are actual attacks.