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From ChatGPT to HackGPT: Meeting the Cybersecurity Threat of Generative AI
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From ChatGPT to HackGPT: Meeting the Cybersecurity Threat of Generative AI

by Karen Renaud, Merrill Warkentin, George Westerman
April 2023
Intermediate to advanced
6 pages
11m
English
MIT Sloan Management Review
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From ChatGPT to HackGPT: Meeting the Cybersecurity Threat of Generative AI

It’s time to replace traditional, rule-based approaches to cybersecurity with “smarter” technology and training.

For the past several years, cybercriminals have been using artificial intelligence to hack into corporate systems and disrupt business operations. But powerful new generative AI tools such as ChatGPT present business leaders with a new set of challenges.

Consider these entirely plausible scenarios:

  • A hacker uses ChatGPT to generate a personalized spear-phishing message based on your company’s marketing materials and phishing messages that have been successful in the past. It succeeds in ...
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