We Urgently Need a Coherent National AI Cybersecurity Policy

2026-08-24

Current national AI cybersecurity policy focuses on measuring dual-use capabilities of models and biases towards AI's benefit to attackers. This framing ignores defensive security use cases such as AI code fixing and phishing defenses. The solution to this issue is to assemble an AI cybersecurity observatory that will perform evaluations combined with real-world use to make policy recommendations.