The persistent humanity in AI and cybersecurity

Even as AI technology transforms some aspects of cybersecurity, the intersection of the two remains profoundly human. Although it's perhaps counterintuitive, humans are front and center in all parts of the cybersecurity triad: the bad actors who seek to do harm, the gullible soft targets, and the good actors who fight back. Even without the looming specter of AI, the cybersecurity battlefield is often opaque to average users and the technologically savvy alike. Adding a layer of AI, which comprises numerous technologies that can also feel unexplainable to most people, may seem doubly intractable -- as well as impersonal. That's because although the cybersecurity fight is sometimes deeply personal, it's rarely waged in person.