Project Ire is Microsoft's autonomous AI that reverse engineers software to detect malware without prior knowledge or human intervention.

Microsoft unveils Project Ire, an autonomous AI system that reverse-engineers software to detect and block malware without human input.

“It was the first reverse engineer at Microsoft, human or machine, to author a conviction case — a detection strong enough to justify automatic blocking — for a specific advanced persistent threat (APT) malware sample, which has since been identified and blocked by Microsoft Defender,” the Ire research team said.