The article examines the key technologies of artificial intelligence in order to use them to ensure the protection of information. It is shown that currently there is no general concept of artificial intelligence in cybersecurity, the most important methods of artificial intelligence that can be used in cybersecurity are not defined, and the role that these methods can play to protect organizations in cyberspace has not been established. As a key idea for the use of artificial intelligence in cybersecurity, the use of technologies and methods that facilitate the detection and response to threats using cyber attack statistics sets has been proposed. Priority areas for the use of artificial intelligence are network security and data protection.