Overview

• The AI Action Plan, effective since July, directs strategic AI deployment to protect pipelines, power grids, financial networks and public services
• It mandates secure-by-design systems with built-in safeguards, resilience benchmarks and minimal attack surfaces for safety-critical applications
• The plan calls for an AI Information Sharing and Analysis Center to facilitate threat intelligence, vulnerability alerts and mitigation guidance between government and industry
• Federal agencies and infrastructure operators are advised to integrate AI scenarios into existing response playbooks while CISA updates its Cybersecurity Incident & Vulnerability Response Playbooks
• Experts advocate a PC-style revolution in AI infrastructure through market-driven open standards, strategic compute reserves and procurement reforms as the US vies with China’s global AI cooperation plan