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When I walked around the exhibition floor at this week's massive Black Hat cybersecurity conference in Las Vegas, I was struck by the number of companies boasting about how they are using machine learning and artificial intelligence to help make the world a safer place. But some experts worry vendors aren't paying enough attention to the risks associated with relying heavily on these technologies. "What's happening is a little concerning, and in some cases even dangerous," warns Raffael Marty of security firm Forcepoint. The security industry's hunger for algorithms is understandable. It's facing a tsunami of cyberattacks just as the number of devices being hooked up to the internet is exploding.