I've spent a lot of time worrying about Internet security, cyber warfare

I’ve spent a lot of time worrying about Internet security, cyber warfare, and the fate of our fragile technological society.

Here’s why I’m seeing hope:

There’s a rapidly evolving technology called Machine Learning. It’s the precursor to AI (and the foundation of my software company).

And with ML, we mere humans can feed a computer (the machine) with a bunch of data to process, allowing it to make probabilities and determinations (learn).

With cyber warfare, our systems are continually getting attacked.

While in the short run these attacks mean emails get leaked, passwords hacked, and credit cards stolen.

But in the long run, these attacks offer plenty of data for our defense systems to continually learn. Making them smarter and smarter.

Consequently, it will become harder and harder to achieve a successful cyber attack.

A new hope.