Google Chrome adds real-time AI protection against dangerous content

Google has updated “Enhanced Protection” in Chrome with AI technology to provide real-time protection against malicious websites, downloads, and browser extensions.

After three months of testing in Chrome Canary (the nightly version of Chrome with experimental features), the AI-driven Enhanced Protection feature is now being rolled out to the stable version of the Chrome browser on all platforms, reports BleepingComputer.

This improved protection is part of Safe Browsing, a security feature that has been in Chrome for several years now. Previously, Google used a method called “proactive protection” to alert users to potentially malicious websites. Now, the terminology has been updated to reflect the real-time protection offered by AI integration.

Exactly how the AI version differs from the previous “proactive” variant isn’t entirely clear, but the technology apparently enables real-time analysis of patterns to identify suspicious or dangerous webpages — even ones that Google hasn’t yet classified as malicious.

According to Google, the AI-powered security feature can also perform deep scanning of downloads to detect suspicious files.

Further reading: These tiny security updates make Chrome better