Can AI narrow cybersecurity’s class divide?

AI is dramatically speeding up cybersecurity work at large organizations like AWS, where vulnerability detection and fixes that once took months now take minutes to hours. However, security experts warn that AI could worsen an existing divide between wealthy organizations with resources and expertise versus smaller organizations (like rural hospitals, community banks, and local governments) that lack the money, staff, and time to adopt AI tools, potentially deepening a cybersecurity inequality that has existed for over a decade.