The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on Friday announced the formation of a board of directors that includes the CEOs of OpenAI, Microsoft, Alphabet – the owner of Google, and Nvidia. Infrastructure as reported by Reuters.
The council will make recommendations to the transportation sector, power line and grid operators, internet service providers and others to “prepare for artificial intelligence-related targeted disruptions of critical services affecting national or economic security, public health or safety.”
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorgas told reporters the council will help ensure the safe use of artificial intelligence technology and how to address threats the technology poses to critical services such as energy, utilities, transportation, defense, information technology, food and agriculture. Financial services.
“This board will not focus on theoretical matters, but on practical solutions for using artificial intelligence in our country's daily life,” Mayorkas told reporters, adding that “it is very important to bring the key developers of this extraordinarily powerful tool to the board,” according to Reuters.
The 22-member panel includes technology leaders, notably OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodi, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and IBM CEO Arvind Krishna, Adobe CEO Shantanu Narine, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai and Amazon. CEO Adam Celebski.
The group also includes Delta Air Lines CEO Ed Bastian, Occidental Petroleum CEO Vicki Holup and Maryland Governor Wes Moore, Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell and the White House head of science and technology policy.
The Board of Directors will meet for the first time next month, and future quarterly meetings will be held.
In its 2024 threat assessment, the Department of Homeland Security warned that AI-powered tools “have the potential to enable widespread, rapid, effective and more avoidable cyberattacks against targets including pipelines, railroads and other critical U.S. infrastructure.”
The department also said China and others are developing “artificial intelligence technologies that could undermine U.S. cyber defenses, including generative AI programs that support malicious activities such as malware attacks.”
