Artificial Intelligence: Next Frontier is Cybersecurity

Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning will play a role in protecting the United States from malicious cyber actors. NSA's Jason Wang, technical director for the Computer and Analytic Sciences Research Group, forecasted a future in which AI will support the Intelligence Community's (IC) efforts to secure and defend our Nation's networks. "I think the next frontier for us is probably in the cybersecurity space," he said. "There's a lot of opportunity … to bring machines to this very low latency, highly dynamic problem in ways that really are not human-time kinds of responses." Mr. Wang was responding to a question about cybersecurity and AI posed by former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, one of several hundred audience members attending a virtual web briefing on July 12th that also featured AI experts from the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA).