Security researchers are in the last-chance saloon to save their jobs from AI
Katie Moussouris calls on security researchers to sandbag human-in-the-loop processes against AI automation.
Vulnerability detection still needs the human touch and security researchers need to fight to stay in the loop, HackerOne's former chief policy officer Katie Moussouris says.
Moussouris told the audience gathered at the BSides security conference in San Francisco last week that the increasing push toward automation and optimisation, fuelled by AI, will threaten the careers of security professionals unless action is taken.
Speaking to The Stack after her talk, Moussouris, who oversaw the first bug bounty programs from Microsoft and the Pentagon, said security is the “canary in the coal mine” when it comes to AI taking over human jobs.