As artificial intelligence evolves, so does its criminal potential

The irony, of course, is that this year the computer security industry, with $75 billion in annual revenue, has started to talk about how machine learning and pattern recognition techniques will improve the woeful state of computer security. "The thing people don't get is that cybercrime is becoming automated and it is scaling exponentially," said Marc Goodman, a law enforcement agency adviser and the author of Future Crimes. He added, "This is not about Matthew Broderick hacking from his basement," a reference to the 1983 movie War Games.