AI transforms cyberspace: national strategy to crime

Homepage > News > Business > AI transforms cyberspace: national strategy to crime As governments invest in artificial intelligence (AI) and cybersecurity, regulators warn of new vulnerabilities, and criminal networks are increasingly adapting the technology to expand their nefarious toolkits. China puts AI at the heart of growth AI spots cyber gaps faster than firms can fix them APAC criminals embrace AI and decentralization Recent developments from China, the United Kingdom, and the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region are demonstrating how AI is rapidly becoming intertwined with cybersecurity: governments are looking to AI and cyber capabilities as strategic assets, businesses are confronting a new generation of AI-enabled security challenges, and criminal networks are adapting the technology to make fraud operations more sophisticated and harder to disrupt. AI key to China’s growth plans China’s newly announced cyberspace strategy has put AI and other frontier technologies at the center of an ambitious effort to strengthen the country’s digital economy and cybersecurity capabilities, in the face of the United States’ dominance of the space. On August 21, the Cyberspace Administra...