Security by Design and Default – How to Address the Cybersecurity Challenge

All anyone wants to talk about these days is AI, and when seven leading U.S. producers of AI technology recently stepped forward with their commitment to voluntarily include cybersecurity in their platforms, cybersecurity practitioners everywhere were cautiously optimistic. After conversations with the Biden-Harris administration, representatives from Amazon, Anthropic, Google, Inflection, Meta, Microsoft, and OpenAI publicly “agreed that AI firms have a duty to build systems that put security first.” That means safeguarding their AI models against cyber and insider threats and sharing best practices and standards to prevent misuse, reduce risks to society and protect national security.” The question is whether or not it will it go far enough. In the battle between good AI cyber hygiene and the need to be “first”, who do we really believe will be the winner?