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Anne Neuberger, a Top White House Cyber Official, Sees the 'Promise and Peril' in AI


Anne Neuberger, the Biden administration’s deputy national security adviser for cyber, tells WIRED about emerging cybersecurity threats—and what the US plans to do about them.

When recent hacks happened, there were FBI agents working overnight getting tips, the intelligence community had the relationships to pursue, and we knew if we needed help from a foreign government, we could pick up the phone. But it shows how it’s core to what we want to do—this huge promise of drones monitoring electricity infrastructure after storms and determining lines are down to make maintenance far more efficient, all of that needs connectivity. We spend a great deal of our time in convening agencies together to say these are genuinely hard issues, they're very technical, we need to resolve them together, because this is core not only to our innovation but to our global leadership.

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