News brief: AI's cybersecurity risks weigh on business leaders

The complicated analysis of risk around AI weighs on business leaders. They want their organizations to reap the benefits of AI. After all, chatbots enable organizations to raise their customer service game, and AI tools can streamline the hiring process, enhance demand forecasting and automate manual and cognitive tasks. New AI uses are constantly being explored as organizations consider the pros and cons of AI in the workplace.

Yet corporate leaders recognize that those same tools also expose them to risks they didn't face in a pre-AI world. On the one hand, decision-makers worry that they aren't doing enough to govern and secure their organization's AI use. In fact, more than 70% of companies in the S&P 500 now identify AI use as a material risk.

On the other hand, business leaders understand that cybercriminals' use of AI is a threat they need to meet. Savvy malicious ...