America’s digital defenses are failing—but AI can save them.
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Jen Easterly, a Visiting Fellow of Practice at the Blavatnik School of Government at Oxford University and former Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, notes that America’s digital defenses are failing.
In 1988, the Morris worm, an experimental computer program, unintentionally crippled the early Internet, exposing the serious consequences of poorly designed software.
Nearly 40 years later, the world still runs on fragile code riddled with the same kinds of flaws and defects.
Author summary: AI can save America's failing digital defenses.