Reimagining Cyber Security Education: Co-Intelligence in the Age of AI

Reimagining Cyber Security Education: Co-Intelligence in the Age of AI

Artificial intelligence is not replacing human intellect, it’s redefining it. As Generation Alpha becomes the first truly AI-native cohort, universities face a pivotal choice: either treat AI as a threat to academic integrity or embrace it as a partner in cognitive change and growth. This talk explores how education in cyber security must evolve from memorising frameworks to cultivating co-intelligence, the ability for humans and machines to reason together. Drawing on global trends and research, John re-imagines the classroom as shared human-AI ecosystems. The talk introduces the the concept of new aptitudes, showing how behavioural telemetry, digital-twin learning, and AI mentors can build problem-solvers who think with AI, not against it.

This talk is part of the Human Factors in Computer Systems Seminar Series