INTAiC – Integrated Network for Trusted AI in Cyberspace

The Paris Peace Forum launches INTAiC (the Integrated Network for Trusted AI in Cyberspace - Discerning signal from noise on AI misuse by cyber adversaries), in response to the growing implications of artificial intelligence (AI) for cybersecurity, and its bearing on national security and collective resilience. While advanced models are powerful assets for defenders, in the wrong hands they can significantly compromise cyberspace stability without tailored mitigation strategies. Yet crafting effective responses remains severely constrained by a persistent evidence gap, as current efforts to document AI-driven cyber threats are too fragmented to provide policymakers with an actionable baseline. INTAiC stands as an inclusive platform where the AI and cybersecurity communities pool knowledge and expertise to build shared understanding of AI misuse and its impacts, as they advance solutions to lift obstacles to evidence-grounded international action.

INTAiC's contributors already include experts from Orange Cyberdefense, AI Safety Connect, Microsoft, Cloud Security Alliance, Wavestone, Cyber Threat Alliance, WithSecure, CeSIA, GPAI Policy Lab, and Protect.ngo, with more joining.

The case for multiactor collaboration

The evidence fragmentation is not incidental but structural. Those best placed to observe AI-driven cyber threats, those securing AI systems and those defending networks alike, have long worked in separate spheres, each with its own concepts, vocabularies and policy circuits. The result is a landscape rich in dispersed insight yet poor in shared, comparable evidence. In it, no government, company or research institution, however well-resourced, holds more than a fragment of the picture. This is a challenge no actor can meet in isolation.

A neutral platform for cooperation beyond borders

Viewed from any single country, AI misuse appears partial and easily misread. The real pattern emerges only when evidence is brought together across borders. It is for this purpose that the Paris Peace Forum convenes INTAiC, bringing together public and private sectors, researchers and civil society across the globe on an equal footing. Building on the spirit of the Paris Call for Trust and Security in Cyberspace and the International AI Safety Report process, the Network aims to connect forward-looking assessments to evidence drawn from the field, across the AI-Cybersecurity lifecycle.

Two line of efforts

INTAiC pursues two complementary strands of work.

The first assembles a shared evidence base on AI misuse. Under a common methodology, INTAiC draws evidence from across the field — the AI and cybersecurity communities, public institutions and the sectors most exposed to attack across regions — and weaves it into a single, comparable and regularly updated reading of how AI is reshaping cyber threats. Its value lies in the combined picture, not in any contribution taken alone. The reading looks beyond isolated incidents, tracing the forms this misuse takes, how far it changes what attackers can achieve, and the toll it exacts. The result is a common reference point, grounded in reality, that gives policymakers a clearer measure of the threat and identifies the risks most deserving of collective attention. 

The second strengthens the collective capacity to evaluate and prevent cyber-capable AI risks, as the independent expertise to make sense of these systems remains thin and unevenly distributed across countries. Here, INTAiC works with public authorities, research institutions and non-profit organisations to explore new organizational and funding arrangements that would enable them to close this gap. The goal is a public-interest ecosystem durably equipped to assess the cyber capabilities of advanced AI, to model the threats they may create, and to design strategies to mitigate them.

Together, the two strands follow advanced AI across its whole arc, from what it is capable of before release to how it is actually used once deployed, so that anticipation and evidence reinforce one another rather than advancing apart. 

The road ahead

As these capabilities advance and attract growing concerns from governments and societies alike, the value of a shared and trusted reading of the threat will only increase. Drawing on contributions from across borders and sectors, INTAiC is designed to complement the work already under way across the public and private sectors and in research. Its first major outcomes will be presented at the ninth edition of the Paris Peace Forum, in November 2026.