[bradneuberg]

Is this both automated defense and offense via machine learning, or just automated defensive systems? If it includes automated offensive systems, what's to keep these kinds of systems from jumping outside of their sandboxes and compromising the outside world?

[sanxiyn]

For a flavor of automated offensive system, see this Automatic Exploit Generation paper: http://security.ece.cmu.edu/aeg/

David Brumley, PI of the research, went on to found ForAllSecure which is the company covered in the article.