The European Commission's IT department wants to fight AI-powered cyberattacks with AI of its own.
A document obtained by Politico, written by DG DIGIT - the Commission's internal IT department - lays out how the EU's executive branch should prepare to defend against AI-driven threats. The paper is undated, but it signals that officials expect attackers to use AI to speed up and sharpen their attacks. In response, DG DIGIT wants the Commission to deploy AI tools of its own to detect and respond to the most dangerous incidents faster than human analysts could manage alone. The document does not lay out a timeline or a budget.
This matters because an AI arms race between attackers and defenders rewards whoever reacts fastest, and government IT departments are not usually known for speed. If Brussels moves to automate parts of its incident response, it would be one of the first concrete signals from an EU body that human-only defense is no longer considered good enough.
Worth watching: how much autonomy these systems actually get, especially from a Commission that spends much of its time writing the rules for exactly this kind of technology.