Seriously Risky Business Newsletter
October 05, 2023
NSA Wants to Protect America's AI Edge
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Policy & Intelligence
The US National Security Agency (NSA) is creating a new Artificial Intelligence Security Center to develop secure AI for use in defence and national security. The Center will also work to maintain the US's AI advantage by protecting against intellectual property (IP) theft.
The Director of NSA and US Cyber Command, General Paul Nakasone, announced the creation of the new centre in a speech at the National Press Club in Washington DC.
In his speech Nakasone pithily described AI security as "about protecting AI systems from learning, doing and revealing the wrong thing", before listing some goals of the new centre: