It has not been officially announced, but it has been discovered that Google is working on incorporating AI into the protection mode of its Chrome browser. It is only a matter of time before artificial intelligence is the one that protects us from malicious pages and other possible problems that we encounter while we move around the network.
We assume that when the time comes, Google will talk about it at length to show us the wonders of this new technology. But, for now, the discovery about the use of AI in Chrome's enhanced protection has been made by a user who is using the Canary beta version. The change should apply to all users sooner or later.
More AI in Chrome
Just a week ago we were talking about how Chrome was going to introduce an AI assistant in its browser. And now we also find artificial intelligence in another part of the program that has nothing to do with it: the protection offered to the user. More precisely, the enhanced protection, that special mode that you may have activated and that everyone has the option to activate or deactivate at will.
The discovery was made by X user Leopeva64, who has published a comparison of the information on the enhanced protection mode before and after the latest update. The difference is that precision that Google makes in saying that real-time protection is now based on the use of AI. Beyond that, there is no new information or data that helps us know how exactly the use of artificial intelligence is being applied.
What does this enhanced protection do?
If we activate this mode, Chrome takes care of protecting us from potentially dangerous pages that we try to enter, while also giving us protection against downloads or in relation to the installation of extensions. The only difference in the description is in the indication that AI is now used, so we assume that Google will be implementing artificial intelligence progressively so that it can protect users.
What we assume Chrome will do thanks to AI is to provide the ability to protect against threats that have not even been registered in the databases as potential threats. The system should be capable enough to detect these risks and thus prevent users from finding themselves in complicated situations. In principle, from what we assume, AI should increase the protection success rates so that we can feel more secure without there being any aspect for which this technology is negative.
In addition to this, the same user has discovered that Chrome is also putting AI into the management of tab groups. AI will be in charge of managing the grouping of tabs, while it will also have the ability to analyze the tabs that are not being used and thus be able to deduce which of them are no longer necessary. This should help to have a more organized interface and make it easier to use Chrome on a daily basis, especially if we are already taking advantage of this tab group system.
How long it will take to see these new AI features applied to the standard version of Chrome remains to be seen. If Google is pleased with the performance of the new features, it will likely not be too long before we see them activated in all versions of the browser. At that point, it is certainly safe to imagine that Google will be making a big deal about these new AI-powered features.
