Inside NSA’s partnerships with AI makers to prevent future attacks

The National Security Agency is teaming up with leading artificial intelligence companies to expose foreign adversaries’ malicious use of the cutting-edge technology emerging in the private sector. The agency is leveraging its Cybersecurity Collaboration Center that rapidly built close working relationships with cybersecurity firms to defend against foreign hacks for a new effort focused on AI attacks, according to NSA’s Kristina Walter. The center enlisted more than 1,000 cybersecurity companies to help thwart hackers since its launch approximately four years ago. Ms. Walter, who took over the center in June,...