June 2 (Reuters) - Trend Micro ( TMICF ) on Sunday said

it is working with Nvidia ( NVDA ) to create new cybersecurity

tools that use artificial intelligence and are designed to

protect the data centers where AI work happens.

The tools, which Trend Micro ( TMICF ) planned to show at the Computex

conference in Taiwan beginning on Sunday, will be capable of

running on Nvidia's ( NVDA ) chips and are designed to detect intruders

and make sure that data is only seen by those authorized to use

it.

Many businesses are training AI systems to help their

employees with tasks like answering human resources questions or

assisting customer service agents. But to do so, the businesses

often pull data from across their business into one place, which

makes the system an alluring target for hackers.

"They work their way into the enterprise and they find this

massive honeypot of information," Trend Micro ( TMICF ) Chief Operating

Officer Kevin Simzer told Reuters.

In addition to detecting intruders, another area that Trend

Micro ( TMICF ) will focus on is ensuring that data that gets fed into AI

systems doesn't get snooped on by hackers. For most modern

chatbots, users interact with the bot by asking it questions -

and many times the questions themselves can contain sensitive

information, either in the form of undisclosed corporate secrets

or private customer data.

"They're often narrowing the scope of (a chatbot's

responses) by giving some very, very specific information,"

Simzer said of the use of AI prompts. "That's what we're going

to be looking for and making sure that we see it first and we

can make sure that it doesn't go any further" than the people

and applications authorized to see it, Simzer said.