Paris Peace Forum 2026 | 10-11 Nov.
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Paris, July 8th 2026 — The Paris Peace Forum is launching INTAiC, the Integrated Network for Trusted AI in Cyberspace, in response to the growing implications of artificial intelligence (AI) for cybersecurity, national security, and collective resilience. This new policy initiative once again translates the Forum’s founding mission — “reinventing diplomacy in a changing world” — into concrete action on one of today’s most pressing global challenges, by shaping an ambitious multi-actor response.
While advanced AI 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.
It is in this context that the Paris Peace Forum is launching INTAiC, the Integrated Network for Trusted AI in Cyberspace, 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.
“Evidence fragmentation on AI-driven cyber threats isn't incidental — it's structural: those defending networks and those securing AI systems have long worked in separate spheres. That's exactly why INTAiC is unique — it's built to turn those fragments into one comparable reading of the threat, because this is a challenge no actor can meet alone.” - Adrien Abecassis, Policy Initiatives Director, Paris Peace Forum.
INTAiC brings 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 on the International AI Safety Report, INTAiC aims to connect forward-looking assessments to evidence drawn from the field, across the AI-cybersecurity lifecycle. 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.
Two complementary workstreams
A shared evidence base on AI misuse. Unsing 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. This analysis looks beyond isolated incidents, tracing the forms this misuse takes, how it changes attackers’ capabilities, 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.
A stronger collective capacity to evaluate and prevent cyber-capable AI risks. Independent expertise to make sense of these systems remains thin and unevenly distributed across countries. INTAiC works with public authorities, research institutions and non-profit organizations to explore new organizational and funding arrangements that would help 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.
Towards the 9th edition of the Paris Peace Forum
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 outcomes will be presented at the 9th edition of the Paris Peace Forum, to be held on November 10 and 11 2026, under the theme “From Sovereignty to Cooperation”.
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