As the White House touts its AI task force, CISA is conspicuously missing
President Donald Trump’s AI task force says it will ensure that the government is protecting Americans from the powerful technology’s cybersecurity risks. The only problem: It’s made no mention of the federal agency in charge of handling those risks.
The senior government officials leading Trump’s newest AI initiative — who regularly promote AI’s benefits and say comparatively little about its harms — have essentially ignored the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency in their public remarks about the task force. The group has teams focused on critical infrastructure security and incident reporting, areas in which CISA has more expertise than any other agency, but CISA is not leading those teams and might not even be participating in them.
CISA’s conspicuous absence from the task force’s work could presage serious problems. Without CISA’s deep involvement, experts told Cybersecurity Dive, the task force risks producing half-baked or redundant AI...
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