{"id":31844,"date":"2016-11-11T07:46:29","date_gmt":"2016-11-11T15:46:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/battle-of-the-bots-how-ai-is-taking-over-the-world-of-cybersecurity"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:03:57","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:03:57","slug":"battle-of-the-bots-how-ai-is-taking-over-the-world-of-cybersecurity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/battle-of-the-bots-how-ai-is-taking-over-the-world-of-cybersecurity","title":{"rendered":"Battle of the Bots: How AI Is Taking Over the World of Cybersecurity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/battle-of-the-bots-how-ai-is-taking-over-the-world-of-cybersecurity2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Google has built machine learning systems that can create their own cryptographic algorithms \u2014 the latest success for AI\u2019s use in cybersecurity. But what are the implications of our digital security increasingly being handed over to intelligent machines?<\/p>\n<p>Google Brain, the company\u2019s California-based AI unit, managed <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.co.uk\/information-technology\/2016\/10\/google-ai-neural-network-cryptography\/\">the recent feat<\/a> by pitting neural networks against each other. Two systems, called Bob and Alice, were tasked with keeping their messages secret from a third, called Eve. None were told how to encrypt messages, but Bob and Alice were given a shared security key that Eve didn\u2019t have access too.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/battle-of-the-bots-how-ai-is-taking-over-the-world-of-cybersecurity.jpg\" alt=\"ai-cybersecurity-7\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n<p> In the majority of tests the pair fairly quickly worked out a way to communicate securely without Eve being able to crack the code. Interestingly, the machines used some pretty unusual approaches you wouldn\u2019t normally see in human generated cryptographic systems, <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2016\/10\/28\/googles-ai-creates-its-own-inhuman-encryption\/\">according to TechCrunch<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2016\/11\/09\/battle-of-the-bots-how-ai-is-taking-over-the-world-of-cybersecurity\/?utm_content=buffer26722&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook-hub&utm_campaign=buffer\">http:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2016\/11\/09\/battle-of-the-bots-how-...ign=buffer<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google has built machine learning systems that can create their own cryptographic algorithms \u2014 the latest success for AI\u2019s use in cybersecurity. But what are the implications of our digital security increasingly being handed over to intelligent machines? Google Brain, the company\u2019s California-based AI unit, managed the recent feat by pitting neural networks against each [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":411,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,1625,41,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-encryption","category-information-science","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/411"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31844"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65791,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31844\/revisions\/65791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}