Army Gen. Paul Nakasone, the outgoing director of the NSA, emphasized that while AI assists in decision-making, the final decisions are made by humans. The new center will focus on leveraging foreign intelligence insights, contributing to the development of best practices guidelines, principles, evaluation, methodology, and risk frameworks for AI security. It will also promote the secure development and adoption of AI within national security systems and the defense industrial base. The center will collaborate with U.S. industry, national labs, academia, the Department of Defense, and international partners.
Key takeaways:
- The National Security Agency (NSA) is starting an artificial intelligence security center to enhance the security of U.S. defense and intelligence systems.
- The center will be incorporated into the NSA’s Cybersecurity Collaboration Center and will work with private industry and international partners to protect the U.S. defense-industrial base against threats, particularly from China and Russia.
- Army Gen. Paul Nakasone emphasized that while AI assists in threat analysis, decisions are ultimately made by humans.
- The establishment of the AI security center follows an NSA study that identified securing AI models from theft and sabotage as a major national security challenge.