Israel embraces cutting-edge AI to thwart cyberattacks, foil terrorism

Ronen Bar, director of the Shin Bet intelligence agency, speaks at the Cyber Week conference to describe how Israeli security agencies have embraced artificial intelligence. Israel continues to explore innovative uses for artificial intelligence (AI) in various aspects of security and law enforcement, helping to foil numerous threats. "AI technology has been incorporated quite naturally into the Shin Bet's interdiction machine," Shin Bet Director Ronen Bar said in a speech to the Cyber Week conference in Israel. "Using AI, we have spotted a not-inconsequential number of threats." Shin Bet, the Israeli counterpart to the FBI or Britain's MI5, has created its own generative AI platform, akin to ChatGPT, Bar revealed.