REGISTER: https://keia.org/event/artificial-intelligence-and-north-koreas-cyber-all-purpose-sword/
Over the past decade, Kim Jong-un’s regime has increasingly used cyber tools to achieve its objectives. As a result of sustained investments, the DPRK has developed a sophisticated set of cyber capabilities which it has used against foreign militaries, banks, companies, media outlets, and individuals. While North Korea has relied on human operators to carry out its cyber activities, it may be considering automating cyberattacks through use of artificial intelligence (AI). This could help North Korea overcome a shortage of trained personnel as well as increasing the sophistication of it capabilities. Is North Korea about to make the leap to artificial intelligence-enabled cyberattacks or cyber defense? Or will the country’s international isolation impair its ability to pair up AI with its existing cyber capabilities?
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Nathan Beauchamp-Mustafaga
Associate Policy Researcher, RAND Corporation
Scott Harold
Senior Political Scientist, RAND Corporation
Jenny Jun
Nonresident Fellow, Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security
Diana Myers
Assistant Policy Researcher, RAND Corporation