Even as AI Gets Better at Finding Weak Spots, It Doesn't Eliminate the Human Role in Cyber
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In a Federal News Network interview, Justin Miller argues that while AI lowers the barrier to entry for attackers and increases the speed and scale of attacks — accelerating both offense and defense — it does not remove the human from cyber conflict. Organizations still need skilled people to govern AI and exercise judgment, ethics, and accountability in the cyber domain.
Why It Matters for AI Harness
This is the doctrine's fifth law stated in the field: Humans Retain the Right to Intervene. Automation does not transfer accountability — at every layer a human must be able to inspect, interrupt, and override, which is the job of the Human Oversight, Audit & Traceability plane. The article's machine-speed framing also reinforces why the doctrine's Threat Surface treats Cascading Failure as a first-class risk.
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