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Cybersecurity experts are cautiously optimistic about the new wave of generative AI innovations like ChatGPT, while malicious actors are already leaping to experiment with it.
Cyber leaders see multiple ways generative AI can help assist organizations' defense: reviewing code for efficiency and potential security vulnerabilities; exploring new tactics that malicious actors might employ; and automating recurring tasks like writing reports.
Reality check: The idea of using chatbots to review or write secure code has already been called into question by some experts and researchers.
Using generative AI to review code strikes some experts as particularly dangerous.
Meanwhile, hackers and malicious actors, always on the prowl for ways to speed up their operations, have been quick to incorporate generative AI into attacks.
The bottom line: Shattuck maintains that organizations exploring AI usage should see through the larger hype and "understand the limitations, like truly understand where it's at."
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