AI Can Help Defend Against Cyberattacks
19 February 2026
Published by The Wall Street Journal
AI and Cyberattacks
"We need a network of secure defensive agents that can reason and react faster than any human."
When Anthropic recently disclosed a cyber espionage campaign that used artificial intelligence to execute much of the attack autonomously, headlines framed it as a new, uncontrollable threat. But what made the incident most notable wasn’t that the attackers used AI to add automation and speed. That’s to be expected. It was that Anthropic used AI to detect and stop the campaign. In this case, the attackers were faster. That must change...

