The push to designate AI as the next critical infrastructure sector
Brief
Artificial intelligence has never been more important to the federal government.
Under the Trump administration, AI has been adopted rapidly across the private sector and federal agencies. Software developers now use large language models to generate much of their code. Frontier AI models are escaping testing sandboxes to hack live internet infrastructure . Foreign governments are conducting cyber and kinetic attacks targeting data centers and other AI-related infrastructure.
The AI industry’s lightning-fast evolution since 2022 and growing importance to U. S. economic and national security have prompted calls for stronger federal oversight in order to better manage emerging threats.