The Paris Peace Forum has launched a new initiative, the Integrated Network for Trusted AI in Cyberspace (INTAiC), aimed at addressing the growing threats artificial intelligence poses to global internet infrastructure. This project will convene international experts to analyze AI-driven cyber vulnerabilities.
INTAiC will assemble researchers and civil society professionals from both government and the private sector. Their work will involve analyzing current AI cyber threats directly from the field and producing forward-looking reports. These reports are intended to outline the future impact of AI on society and suggest responsive measures for organizations.
INTAiC Tackles AI Cyber Threats
A primary objective of INTAiC is to establish a rapid-response alliance composed of governmental and business entities. This coalition would be designed to collectively address AI-related threats, mirroring existing coordination mechanisms in other cybersecurity domains. Such a unified approach is seen as crucial given the complex nature of AI’s impact on digital security.
Adrien Abecassis, policy initiatives director for the Paris Peace Forum, highlighted the structural nature of the problem. “Evidence fragmentation on AI-driven cyber threats isn’t incidental — it’s structural,” Abecassis stated. “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.”
The network has already secured commitments from several prominent organizations, including Microsoft, the Cyber Threat Alliance, the Cloud Security Alliance, and Orange Cyberdefense. These partnerships aim to foster collaboration and knowledge sharing among key stakeholders in the cybersecurity landscape.
Dual Focus on Defense and Risk Assessment
According to the Paris Peace Forum, INTAiC’s efforts will be organized into two distinct workstreams. The first stream focuses on creating a centralized, regularly updated resource for cybersecurity defenders. This resource will track how AI is transforming cyber threats, concentrating on attacker capabilities, various misuse methods, and impacts on security operations rather than isolated incidents.
The forum explained that this approach aims to establish 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.” This common understanding is expected to facilitate more informed policy decisions and resource allocation.
The second workstream will concentrate on evaluating and mitigating cyber risks specifically associated with AI development and deployment. This involves building a base of independent, third-party experts capable of providing unbiased assessments of advanced AI model cyber capabilities. This part of the initiative will also involve governments, research institutions, and non-profits to develop new organizational and funding structures to support this critical research.
While U.S. federal agencies have made strides in developing their capacity to study and test AI cyber threats, much of the technical expertise and access to frontier AI models remain concentrated within commercial AI companies. This concentration has previously raised concerns about government reliance on these companies for threat analysis. Initiatives like Anthropic’s Project Glasswing and OpenAI’s Trusted Access for Cyber program are working to improve access to these models for a broader range of researchers.
The Paris Peace Forum plans to provide further details on INTAiC’s activities and early achievements during its annual conference in Paris, scheduled for November. The forum anticipates that these updates will shed light on the project’s progress and future direction in addressing AI’s implications for global internet infrastructure.