{"id":40802298041,"date":"2026-09-23T13:46:45","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T17:46:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/?p=40802298041"},"modified":"2026-09-24T15:37:26","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T19:37:26","slug":"callahan-discusses-ai-and-cybersecurity-on-gordon-deal-podcast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/callahan-discusses-ai-and-cybersecurity-on-gordon-deal-podcast\/","title":{"rendered":"Callahan Discusses AI and Cybersecurity on Gordon Deal Podcast"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Brian Callahan, Ph.D., specialist professor in the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering and director of the Cybersecurity Research Center, was a featured guest on the podcast, \u201cThis Morning with Gordon Deal<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the episode, \u201cHow is AI Changing the Cyber Threat Facing Ordinary Americans, Businesses, and Government<\/a>,\u201d Callahan discusses how Artificial Intelligence (AI) is changing the cybersecurity landscape and making it easier to target individuals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Callahan emphasizes that the most effective cyberattacks, including phishing emails, are not new. However, he explains AI tools such as ChatGPT help scammers craft convincing messages without the spelling and grammar mistakes that once served as warning signs of a scam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The conversation also explores calls to slow the pace of AI development and describes how taking a more cautious approach can benefit both individuals and AI companies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Listen to the episode here<\/a>.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Brian Callahan, Ph.D., specialist professor in the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering and director of the Cybersecurity Research Center, was a featured guest on the podcast, \u201cThis Morning with Gordon Deal.\u201d In the episode, \u201cHow is AI Changing the Cyber Threat Facing Ordinary Americans, Businesses, and Government,\u201d Callahan discusses how Artificial Intelligence (AI) […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2249,"featured_media":40802298044,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[322,319,444,423],"tags":[4822,7208,4719,6165,6387,3777,7677],"person":[6400,7679],"audience":[17,11,8,50,29,1961,131,128,47],"school":[77,68],"program":[],"class_list":["post-40802298041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-faculty-accomplishments","category-mu-in-the-news","category-monmouth-now","category-faculty-perspectives","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-csse","tag-cybersecurity","tag-monmouth-cybersecurity-research-center","tag-school-of-science","tag-this-morning-with-gordon-deal","person-brian-callahan","person-gordon-deal","audience-community-member","audience-current-student","audience-faculty","audience-graduate-student","audience-media","audience-parent","audience-prospective-graduate-student","audience-prospective-undergraduate-student","audience-undergraduate-student","school-computer-science-software-engineering","school-school-of-science"],"squareimage":{"id":40802293565,"rendered":"\"\"","original":{"url":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2026\/03\/Brian-Callahan.jpg","width":900,"height":900}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40802298041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2249"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40802298041"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40802298041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40802298069,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40802298041\/revisions\/40802298069"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40802298044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40802298041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40802298041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40802298041"},{"taxonomy":"person","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person?post=40802298041"},{"taxonomy":"audience","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/audience?post=40802298041"},{"taxonomy":"school","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/school?post=40802298041"},{"taxonomy":"program","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/program?post=40802298041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}