The end of cybersecurity?

Software vendors face few incentives to prioritize security. It remains cheaper and faster to shift the costs of insecurity downstream to customers. And because much of the code that underpins critical infrastructure is decades old, rewriting it securely has long been too expensive and time-consuming to make business sense. But capabilities — including the accelerating power of artificial intelligence — are emerging to fix these software problems across entire digital ecosystems.

This could spell the end of cybersecurity as we currently know it — and make the United States much less vulnerable as a result. But the window to take advantage of new technology is closing as U.S. adversaries, too, are looking to use AI to enhance their cyberattack capabilities.

Now is the time for U.S. government agencies, large companies, and investors to work together to fundamentally shift economic incentives and use AI to improve the United States’ digital defenses.

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