Artificial intelligence has become one of the defining forces in cybersecurity, and according to ASU News, it cuts both ways: AI is at once a growing security problem and a powerful part of the solution.
The framing reflects a tension that security professionals increasingly confront. The same capabilities that let AI systems scan code, spot patterns and automate decisions can be turned toward attacking systems as easily as defending them. ASU News characterizes AI as both a source of new risk and a tool that can help organizations respond to that risk.
That dual nature is what makes the technology hard to govern. A tool built to detect intrusions can, in different hands, help craft the intrusions it was meant to catch. Defenders and attackers are effectively drawing from the same well.
The report does not lay out specific incidents, figures or named systems, but its central message is clear: treating AI as purely a threat — or purely a fix — misses the point.
Why it matters: As AI spreads across the systems people rely on every day, understanding it as both weapon and shield is essential to deciding how it should be built, deployed and regulated.