Adversarial Artificial Intelligence Is Real

A panel of artificial intelligence (AI) experts from industry discussed some of the technology's promise and perils and predicted its future during an AFCEA TechNet Cyber Conference panel April 26 in Baltimore. The panelists were all members of AFCEA's Emerging Leaders Committee who have achieved expertise in their given fields before the age of 40. The group discussed AI in the cyber realm. Asked about "anti-AI" or "counter-AI," Brian Behe, lead data scientist, CyberPoint International, reported a recent case in which his team used a method called reinforcement learning to change the signature of malware files without altering the malware's functionality. "We use this as a way to do some security testing on other machine learning classifiers that had been built to detect malware. Sure enough, we were able to beat those classifiers," Behe explained.