On the sidelines of the AI Action Summit (10-11 February 2025), the Paris Peace Forum will bring together key stakeholders to address the intersection of AI and cybersecurity. Featuring insights from the Paris Call for Trust and Security’s Strategic Foresight Hub, the roundtable will explore collaborative solutions to combat AI misuse and strengthen global governance.
As artificial intelligence (AI) continues to drive technological innovation, it also amplifies the risks of its misuse, including in cyberattacks, information manipulation and weaponization in critical dual-use sectors. While a scientific consensus is forming around the primary categories of AI security risks, international cooperation to prevent and address severe risksis still in its embryonic stage. This nascent phase of global engagement raises concerns that new governance efforts may evolve in a fragmented and counterproductive manner.
Among the domains identified as being at risk from the malicious use of AI, cybersecurity stands out as one of the most extensively studied over the past years. Several industry-led initiatives aim to decisively tip the balance in favour of defenders over attackers, as the issue gains prominence in multilateral fora. The “AI-Cyber Nexus” presents new technical and political challenges but also offers a unique opportunity to advance the global governance of AI risks. Since this intersection does not occur in isolation, drawing on the connections, achievements and short comings of the last two decades of cyber policy will be crucial in shaping a clear agenda and developing effective mechanisms to combat AI misuse on an international scale.
On the sidelines of the AI Action Summit, the Paris Peace Forum will convene key industry and public sector representatives alongside experts in cyber policy and AI governance from international organizations and civil society. The goal is to take stock of current initiatives addressing AI-driven cyber risks across various levels of action and explore ways to mainstream such endeavors.
This roundtable will also showcase the preliminary findings of the Paris Call for Trust and Security’s Strategic Foresight Hub, focusing on integrating cybersecurity expertise into AI safety governance. The event’s outcomes will contribute to the multistakeholder initiatives led by the Paris Peace Forum to explore effective approaches for international cooperation to address the significant risks of AI misuse.
Yoshua Bengio
Full Professor, Université de Montréal ; Scientific Director, Mila
Bénédicte Schmitt
Senior Analyst, Digital Security Policies and Regulations, OECD
Craig Jones
Senior Associate Fellow, Royal United Services Institute; Former INTERPOL’s Director of Cybercrime
Florence G’Sell
Director, Program on the Governance of Emerging Technologies, Stanford University
Jimena Viveros
Chief Executive Officer, IQuilibrium AI; former Member of the UN Secretary-General’s High-level Advisory Body on Artificial Intelligence
Joanna Bouckaert
Lead, Centre for Cybersecurity, World Economic Forum
Josiah Hagen
Field CTO, Trend Micro
Sam Kaplan
Senior Director & Assistant General Counsel, Public Policy & Government Affairs, Palo Alto Networks
Mikko Hyppönen
Chief Scientific Officer, WithSecure
Nicholas Butts
Director, Global Cybersecurity & AI Policy, Microsoft
Peter Slattery
Researcher, MIT FutureTech; Lead, MIT AI Risk Repository
Robert Trager
Co-Director, Oxford Martin AI Governance Initiative
Victoria Espinel
Chief Executive Officer, Business Software Alliance