At this year’s annual Black Hat convention in Las Vegas, artificial intelligence was top of mind for attendees and presenters alike. Join us as Hackalope recounts the talks and topics that got his brain churning. We discuss using AI in incursion and defense, and how it works as a modeling tool. We also talk about how the cost of cyber defense is straining budgets at smaller organizations, and a new wrinkle in the history of systems that are hard to get to, but easy to crack.