White Paper
Artificial Intelligence and Cybersecurity: Balancing Risks and Rewards
The 2025 WEF white paper explores how AI is reshaping cybersecurity, offering both enhanced threat detection and new vulnerabilities. It identifies five key areas for action: governance, secure design, threat detection, incident response, and workforce readiness. AI can automate defenses but also enable more sophisticated attacks. The paper calls for global collaboration, transparency, and standards to manage risks. It urges stakeholders to embed cybersecurity into AI development from the start, ensuring ethical, secure deployment that balances innovation with resilience across sectors.