April 16th, 2024
DayBlink Consulting Partner and Cyber Security Practice Lead Michael Morgenstern writes in HackerNoon about the threats generative AI may bring in the future.
“Unlike most prognosticators in the cyber industry, I will try not to inflame the hype of yet another doomsday, the sky is falling discussion on the newest threat vector. Over the past quarter in particular, that has been Generative AI (GenAI). This technology has even captured the minds (and fears) of the C-Suite and Boardrooms, quite a bit differently than when security practitioners started talking about machine learning many years ago.
Most (though not all) of the GenAI conversation has seemed to revolve around its ability to amplify productivity and its potential to continue the trend of automating away tasks that shouldn’t require humans. Lots of technology companies have been touting their new “AIs,” which predominantly have meant chatbots and interactive prompts.”
Read the original article in HackerNoon here: GenAI – Soon to Be Great for Automating Dumb Attacks