Mike Lynch: Machine learning is fuelling a cyber arms race (Wired UK)

This article was first published in the April 2016 issue of WIRED magazine. Be the first to read WIRED's articles in print before they're posted online, and get your hands on loads of additional content by subscribing online. Last year, probably for the first time, two fully autonomous artificial intelligences went to war in anger: an attacker and a defender. The battlefield was a corporate network. For the past two years, the most advanced cyber-defence systems have used machine learning.