Infosec experts divided on AI's potential to assist red teams

A panel at the Canalys APAC Forum debated the role of generative AI in red teaming and pentesting, highlighting potential efficiency gains for threat hunting alongside risks such as over-reliance, weak explainability, and unclear legal accountability. While some practitioners report AI-assisted wins in discrete pentest stages, experts argue current LLMs lack the maturity and memory for stealthy, end-to-end red team operations, and any liability would likely rest with the human operators under existing pentesting laws as AI-specific regulations remain nascent.