Using AI to fight AI w University of Auckland Professor Dr Alex Baird, 29th June, 2026

The Five Eyes Alliance, a multilateral intelligence-sharing alliance which includes Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States has issued warnings that frontier AI models are rapidly increasing the risk of cyber threats. 

This shift is too quick for humans to manually keep up with as instead of having years for defensive actions against attacks, we only have a few months now.

Hence why cybersecurity experts believe that using AI to fight against AI might be the only option to keep up with this new shift in pace. 

The phrase “AI fighting AI”, refers to when Artificial intelligence is used to both launch and defend against cyberattacks. Since AI can automate hacks and intrusions at un-heard of speeds, systems are needing to rely on autonomous AI models which can recognise and counter the threats in a few seconds. 

Producer Jude spoke with University of Auckland Professor, Dr. Alex Baird, to learn more about AI fighting AI.