Security News > 2020 > June > Bug Hunters Confident They Will Continue to Outperform AI: Study
One interesting, and perhaps concerning, revelation from the study is that 78% of hackers believe they will outperform AI for the next 10 years.
AI is often touted as the great hope for cybersecurity, but if ethical hackers believe they are better, then so will blackhat hackers.
Jasmin Landry, a top-ranked Bugcrowd hacker, explains the AI reasoning: "Hackers will always be one step ahead of AI when it comes to cybersecurity because humans are not confined by the logical limitations of machine intelligence," she said.
Hackers can adapt four to five low-impact bugs to exploit a single high-impact attack vector that AI would likely miss without the creative flexibility of human decision-making. Experience allows hackers to recognize vulnerable misconfigurations that represent a true risk to organizations without all of the false positives that typically come with AI-powered solutions."
The figure of $8.9 billion savings to industry is therefore an implied rather than gospel figure - but it nevertheless demonstrates the value of delegating bug hunting to a worldwide ethical hacking community.