Cyber security and artificial intelligence
Carl E. Landwehr · 2008
Computer security and artificial intelligence in their early days didn't seem to have much to say to each other. AI researchers were interested in making computers do things that only humans had been able to do, while security researchers aimed to fix the leaks in the plumbing of the computing infrastructure or to design infrastructures they deemed leakproof. Further, AI researchers were often most interested in building systems with behaviors that could change over time through learning or adaptation, and hence were to some degree unpredictable. From the standpoint of security, unpredictable system behavior generally seemed undesirable.