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Action Plan on Cybersecurity and Artificial Intelligence
Actions for a secure and resilient European ecosystem for the age of AI.
Eléonore Scaramozzino, Avocat partenaire, Constellation Avocats
The European Commission has presented an Action Plan for a structured response to address the risks and harness the opportunities of advanced artificial intelligence (AI) models for cybersecurity.
This Action Plan provides an initial and targeted response to support Member States and organisations in the Union to address this new reality. It is based on three pillars.
Pillar 1: Making frontier AI safe, accessible and deployable for European cybersecurity
To ensure a safe and responsible adoption of frontier AI, the EU will step up its capacity to evaluate frontier AI before it is released, including in cybersecurity. This will foster a rigorous external evaluation process and top-tier AI evaluation capabilities in the EU. The EU will also facilitate access to advanced AI-enabled cyber capabilities for European actors and support efforts to test available AI models for cybersecurity use cases.
- Assessing and mitigating risks posed by frontier AI
- Building European excellence in pre-release frontier AI evaluation ‘evaluation of AI models specifically for cybersécurity)
- Faciliting access to advanced AI-enabled cyber capavilities in the EU
- Testing AI with advanced cyber capabilities for timely and secure deployment of AI in cybersecurity
Pillar 2 : Preparing the EU’s cyber ecosystem for the age of AI
The EU will accelerate efforts to support critical sectors and SMEs in preparing for AI powered cyber threats, including through the implementation of cybersecurity fundamentals. Drawing on the full range of available AI, the EU will support their usage for strengthening cyber resilience and to fix the most critical vulnerabilities ;
- Accelerating the patching process: upgrading vulnerability management for AI speed discovery
- Putting into practice: fixing what matters most
Pillar 3: Scaling European AI capabilities for cyber
The EU will scale its ability to develop and deploy AI-powered solutions by boosting a European ecosystem around them and continuing to strengthen its own capacity in frontier developments. Achieving the latter will require urgent, large scale equity investment to build Europe’s own capacities in frontier AI to boost European solutions meeting our needs.
- Boosting the European ecosystem around AI-powered cybersecurity solutions
- Building European frontier capabilities
- Boosting cybersecurity skills for the age of AI
KEY ACTIONS
ACTION PLAN on Cybersecurity and AI
3 PILLARS : 9 KEY ACTIONS
The EU should lead in shaping global practices on trustworthy AI and cyber resilience leveraging the Union’s AI and cyber regulatory framework. In particular, closer cooperation among like-minded partners is needed to ensure frontier AI capabilities remain both secure and available for trusted uses while preventing their misuse by malicious actors. This Action Plan is also a call to our international partners to join the efforts to amplify the impact of proposed measures on AI safety and cyber resilience
This Action Plan marks the continuation of a sustained and coordinated European effort. As the development of advanced AI capabilities will continue to accelerate, with new opportunities and risks to emerge, the Commission will regularly assess the implementation of the Action Plan and adapt actions where necessary, to ensure that it contributes effectively to the development of a secure and resilient European ecosystem for the age of AI.