Introduction

With the rapid rise of Artificial Intelligence (AI) advancements recently, many questions arise, such as: “Does artificial intelligence pose a threat to humanity?”, “Will we be replaced by AI?”, “What is the future of AI?”, (Uldrich, 2023) and many more, the list could go on forever. Essentially, Artificial Intelligence is a set of technologies that can perform a wide range of complex functions, such as being able to see, execute tasks, and analyze data. A lot of the tasks that AI could potentially do, and can do currently, align with enhancing cybersecurity. This can include increased threat detection, enhanced authentication, reduction of human error, and much more. Mentioning the enhancements of cybersecurity is good and all but there are also increased cybercrime attacks unfortunately, including advanced phishing, deepfake technology, automated attacks, and AI-powered ransomware. Some examples of present Artificial Intelligence include ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Microsoft Copilot. These are all AI chatbots that use natural language processing to be able to have human-like conversations with users. These AI chatbots that were mentioned earlier are also the most popular ones to date as they are user-friendly, and anyone can access them free of charge. Many people in society fear that Artificial Intelligence is incredibly powerful and poses too much of a risk in society, especially in cyberspace, but we also have people who acknowledge the vast number of powers it has but want it to be used for a greater good in cybersecurity. There are many different opinions behind it, but at the end of the day, all parties agree that it is indeed powerful, getting more innovative as each day goes by. Artificial Intelligence can be incredibly beneficial across various sectors, not only just the cyberspace, such as education, healthcare, finance, and overall innovation, but there are also challenges that we can face from them, including job displacement, privacy concerns, security threats, loss of human autonomy, and stated before, cybercrime. Nonetheless, the positives outweigh the negatives. AI-powered cybersecurity can be incredibly beneficial to cyberspace with the technologies it withholds and can continue to further innovate cybersecurity. text depicting AI