Are ChatGPT and generative AI a blessing or a curse for security teams? While artificial intelligence (AI)'s ability to generate malicious code and phishing emails presents new challenges for organizations, it's also opened the door to a range of defensive use cases, from threat detection and remediation guidance, to securing Kubernetes and cloud environments. Recently, VentureBeat reached out to some of PWC's top analysts, who shared their thoughts on how generative AI and tools like ChatGPT will impact the threat landscape and what use cases will emerge for defenders. Follow VentureBeat's ongoing generative AI coverage Overall, the analysts were optimistic that defensive use cases will rise to combat malicious uses of AI over the long term. Below is an edited transcript of their responses.