How hackers are saving AI

With help from Maggie Miller

— The movers and shakers of the cybersecurity world have experience preventing digital systems from going haywire. And even if nobody asked, they’re already racing to ensure that chatty chat bots never make the leap to murderous machines.

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KEEPING ON THE GUARDRAILS — If you’re concerned about a future of truth-shattering large language models, ask not what artificial intelligence can do for cyber, but what cyber can do for artificial intelligence.

That’s one of my biggest takeaways from spending a week at the RSA security conference in San Francisco, where yours truly dedicated his 96 hours in the Bay Area (or, really, in a city-sized conference center within the Bay Area) to asking anyone and everyone about the epoch-shifting tech.

That doesn’t mean AI won’t radically change the meaning of things like anti-virus or APTs. A 30-minute stroll past some of the 5,000-plus security vendors camped out on RSA’s enormous subterranean expo floor will at least show you it’s already supercharged the industry’s snake-oil problem.

But while the rest of the Beltway seems to be running around wondering what to do about large language models — and…