Paris Peace Forum launches INTAiC to track AI risks to global internet infrastructure
The Paris Peace Forum, a French non-profit that has convened world leaders on global security issues, is leading INTAiC as a global intelligence and research hub focused on how artificial intelligence is reshaping cyber threats. The project will gather international experts from government, private sector, research institutions and civil society to analyze “AI-related threats to global internet infrastructure,” the Forum said, and to produce forward-looking reports on societal impact and organizational responses.
Partners named by the Forum include Microsoft, Cyber Threat Alliance, Cloud Security Alliance, Orange Cyberdefense
INTAiC already lists a number of prominent businesses and organizations as participants. Among those named are Microsoft, the Cyber Threat Alliance, the Cloud Security Alliance and Orange Cyberdefense, along with other partners the Forum did not enumerate in its announcement. The network intends to combine expertise across these actors to create a “quick-response coalition” of governments and industry for AI-related threats, modeled after coordination mechanisms in other areas of cybersecurity.
Two distinct INTAiC workstreams: a shared threat resource, plus neutral model assessments
The Forum said INTAiC will focus primarily on two separate workstreams. The first is a single, regularly updated resource for defenders to monitor how AI is reshaping cyber threats. That resource will emphasize attacker capabilities, different forms of misuse and the impact on security operations rather than cataloguing isolated incidents. “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,” the Forum said in a release.
The second workstream will evaluate and seek to prevent cyber risks associated with AI by building a roster of independent third-party experts who can provide neutral assessments of frontier model cyber capabilities. The Forum said that work will pull in governments, research institutions and non-profits to develop new organizational and funding pathways to sustain that kind of research.
Commercial model access and U.S. federal capacity: a practical gap INTAiC intends to address
The announcement situates INTAiC against a practical constraint: while “the U.S. federal government has come a long way” in building capacity to study AI cyber threats, much of the access and technical expertise around frontier model capabilities remains concentrated within commercial AI companies. The Forum’s release notes this concentration has “at times created concerns that federal agencies were being overly reliant on AI companies to explain how the technology worked and walk them through the possible threat scenarios.”
At the same time, the release points to steps industry actors have taken to widen research access: Anthropic and OpenAI have rolled out defensive cybersecurity programs named Project Glasswing and the Trusted Access for Cyber program, and those programs have made access to models available to a wider group of researchers and organizations. INTAiC frames itself as a mechanism to marshal and harmonize the evidence such access can produce.
What this means for technologists, policymakers, and enterprises
- Technologists and security teams: INTAiC’s single resource is intended to become a shared operational reference on attacker capabilities and misuse patterns, helping defenders prioritize detection and response planning rather than treating incidents as isolated anomalies.
- Policymakers and regulators: The Forum positions INTAiC as a source of “forward-looking” analysis and a common threat measure that could feed policy deliberations; the project’s neutral third-party assessments aim to reduce overreliance on company-provided explanations of frontier model risks.
- Enterprises and procurement leaders: By convening commercial providers and research bodies, INTAiC could influence how organizations source expertise and demand evidence about model behavior and cyber resilience in vendor engagements.
INTAiC’s next public milestone will come this autumn: the Paris Peace Forum plans to brief the public on the network’s work and accomplishments during its annual conference in November. The initiative is built on a clear premise — that combining fragmented evidence and shared expertise will produce a more comparable reading of AI-driven cyber threats — but the facts the Forum released leave open two operational tests: whether INTAiC can secure sustained funding and access to frontier models, and whether its coalition can move from analysis to rapid, coordinated response in practice. The Forum’s timetable puts the first public report card in Paris this November.
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