5 questions with NIST’s Kat Megas … on AI, cybersecurity and managing risk

Question 1: From your vantage point at NIST, what has changed most dramatically in the cybersecurity environment facing federal agencies?

Kat Megas: With the advent of generative AI and ChatGPT, what happened is it just blew up and it just became terminology and taxonomy that all of a sudden everybody was talking about.

I think it was both the awareness of artificial intelligence and all the benefits and all of the great things that it can do, as well as the generative AI aspect of AI.

Megas: Where we have to start thinking differently about artificial intelligence and specifically about generative AI is to recognize that there is that nondeterministic nature of AI and generative AI.

Megas: There are all these wonderful and great ways that you can think about adopting AI for cybersecurity.