21 January 2025

AI Action Summit – Side Event: Charting the International Governance of the AI-Cyber Nexus

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.

 

Expert Roundtable

  • Paris Call for Trust & Security in Cyberspace
  • Hôtel de la Marine
  • 11 February 2025, 14:30 (Paris Time)
  • By invitation only (contact: pablo.rice@parispeaceforum.org)

Including the participation of:

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

10-11 February 2025

Grand Palais, Paris