Artificial intelligence (AI) is playing a massive role in cyber attacks and is proving both a "double-edged sword" and a "huge challenge," according to NATO. "Artificial intelligence allows defenders to scan networks more automatically, and fend off attacks rather than doing it manually. But the other way around, of course, it's the same game," David van Weel, NATO's Assistant Secretary-General for Emerging Security Challenges, told reporters earlier this month. Cyber attacks, both on national infrastructures and private companies, have ramped up exponentially and become a focal point since the war in Ukraine. NATO said this year that a cyber attack on any of its member states could trigger Article 5, meaning an attack on one member is considered an attack on all of them and could trigger a collective response.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is playing a massive role in cyber attacks and is proving both a "double-edged sword" and a "huge challenge," according to NATO. "Artificial intelligence allows defenders to scan networks more automatically, and fend off attacks rather than doing it manually. But the other way around, of course, it's the same game," David van Weel, NATO's Assistant Secretary-General for Emerging Security Challenges, told reporters earlier this month. Cyber attacks, both on national infrastructures and private companies, have ramped up exponentially and become a focal point since the war in Ukraine. NATO said this year that a cyber attack on any of its member states could trigger Article 5, meaning an attack on one member is considered an attack on all of them and could trigger a collective response.

While many fear the possibility of robots taking their job, a growing number of companies are putting AI-equipped machines to work in roles humans never wanted in the first place. This includes a broad range of applications, from tracking parasite bugs that pose a critical threat to forests to learning to identify risk in legal documents, according to Bloomberg. Swedish packaging company BillerudKorsnas has put robots in place in roles that involve repetitive tasks. Specifically, it's using AI systems to monitor massive amounts of data, in order to determine how long to cook wood chips before they turn into pulp. This would be an otherwise tedious tasks for humans, since they'd be charged with staring at diagrams all day.