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Welcome to the second special edition podcast for our Ons to watch, Innovating with AI Project.

This month, we're laying out the state of play, engaging in key interviews with leaders in the space, and the outlook on what's to come.

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Today, I'm going to be joined by congressional reporter Mika Solner.

She's leading our Ones to Watch, AI, and cybersecurity. As she writes,

artificial intelligence is already playing a crucial role in boosting cybersecurity protections,

as the need to keep web spaces safe and mitigate threats from malicious actors grows. However,

like any technological advancement, she writes, AI has its pros and cons. While it has

made it easier and faster to predict and recognize cyber attacks, AI has also given malicious

actors more tools to get more sophisticated in their methods. All right, today we're going to look

at the interconnection between AI and cybersecurity and what's

on the horizon for the sector as the technology moves the world into the future. Let's talk about

that. Mika, thank you so much for joining me today. Thanks for having me. All right, so set the stage

for us, the state of play. We've been talking so much about artificial intelligence. Washington

is super focused on it.

But where are things when it comes to AI and cybersecurity in particular?

Yeah.

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