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4 Ways AI Is Changing the Public Safety Threat Landscape

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Summary

CIS explains how AI can lower barriers, increase the speed and scale of illicit activity, make deception more convincing, and blur threat boundaries. It recommends incorporating AI into existing public-safety planning and coordination.

Key points

  • AI tools may make information relevant to physical threat planning easier to find and synthesize, while supporting criminal activity such as trafficking and fraud.
  • Generative AI can speed up and scale communications, translation, impersonation, surveillance, and analysis of public information.
  • Synthetic or manipulated media can enable convincing false emergency reports and impersonation, potentially affecting crowd behavior and response efforts.
  • AI-enabled threats can cross physical, cyber, and information domains, requiring coordination among public safety, law enforcement, cybersecurity, and emergency teams.
  • CIS recommends including AI in threat assessments, planning, exercises, and investigations, while improving information sharing.
  • CIS, OpenAI, and MS-ISAC are examining ways AI may help government and critical infrastructure organizations identify risks and strengthen cyber readiness.

Article Details

Topic
How generative AI can amplify existing threats to public safety and support defensive capabilities

Vendors

OpenAIThrough the AI Cyber Defense Pilot, CIS, OpenAI, and the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center (MS-ISAC) are examining how state and local governments and critical infrastructure organizations can use AI

Industries

Critical infrastructureSharing and Analysis Center (MS-ISAC) are examining how state and local governments and critical infrastructure organizations can use AI to identify risks, prioritize security actions, improve cyber hygiene,Public safety4 Ways AI Is Changing the Public Safety Threat Landscape

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