The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on Friday announced the formation of a blue ribbon board composed of the CEOs of OpenAI, Microsoft, Alphabet and Nvidia, Google’s parent company, who will advise the government on the role of artificial intelligence in critical infrastructure.
The council will develop recommendations for the transport sector, pipeline and electricity network operators, internet service providers and others to “prevent and prepare for AI-related disruptions to key services that impact national or economic security, public health or safety.” “.
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas told reporters the board will aid ensure the safe and sound deployment of artificial intelligence technology and address the threats the technology poses to key services such as energy, utilities, transportation, defense, information technology, food and agriculture, and financial services.
“This is not a board that will focus on theory, but rather on practical solutions for implementing artificial intelligence in the everyday life of our nation,” Mayorkas told reporters. “It was very vital to appoint key creators of this extremely powerful tool to the board.”
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The 22-member board includes technology leaders OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, IBM CEO Arvind Krishna, Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai , Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins, Amazon Web Services CEO Adam Selipsky and Advanced Micro Devices CEO Lisa Su.
Delta Air Lines CEO Ed Bastian, Occidental Petroleum CEO Vicki Hollub and Northrop Grumman CEO Kathy Warden also serve on the board, as well as Maryland Gov. Wes Moore, Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell and the head of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.
The board will meet for the first time next month, with future meetings scheduled quarterly.
DHS warned in its 2024 Threat Assessment that AI-powered tools have “the potential to enable faster, more proficient, and more evasive, larger-scale cyberattacks against targets including U.S. pipelines, railroads, and other critical infrastructure.”
It also said China and other countries are developing “artificial intelligence technologies that could undermine U.S. cyber defenses, including generative artificial intelligence programs that support malicious activities such as malware attacks.”
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