Take up of AI by businesses, governments and malicious actors will enhance existing cyberthreats and enable new threat vectors. While it will also be used to enhance cybersecurity, those same systems will themselves become targets of cyberthreats.
This fact sheet provides definitions for some of the most commonly encountered Artificial Intelligence (AI) terms in cybersecurity and a brief typology of cyberthreats that will arise from AI.
Rapid advances in AI, along with public releases of AI products, have prompted governments, businesses and criminals to accelerate efforts to incorporate this new technology into their operations. These actors are looking to capitalise on advances in a particular type of AI known as deep learning neural networks – such as ChatGPT.
The fact sheet includes definitions for:
- Artificial Intelligence
- Machine learning (ML)
- Neural networks
- Deep learning
- Various architectures
- Specific models.
