Offensive AI: The Sine Qua Non of Cybersecurity

« Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime. Yet it is often in the furnace of war that the sharpest tools of peace are forged. » – Victor Hugo.
In 1971, an unsettling message started appearing on several computers that comprised ARPANET, the precursor to what we now know as the Internet. The message, which read « I’m the Creeper: catch me if you can. » was the output of a program named