OpenAI gets Microsoft, Google, AWS and 100+ others to sign a cyber-defense letter
OpenAI published an open letter co-signed by more than 100 companies — Microsoft, Google, AWS, Anthropic, Cisco, CrowdStrike, SAP, Mastercard — warning that AI-enabled attacks will grow far more widespread and sophisticated, with hospitals and water utilities the softest targets. Its three asks (C-suite ownership of security, more government funding, affordable tooling for underfunded organizations) carry no commitments; the load-bearing fact sits in the mid-August NSA, CISA and FBI warning it leans on, which found attackers using AI to write exploit scripts against Siemens S7 industrial controllers across US energy, water, chemicals and manufacturing. Offensive AI against industrial control systems is a documented federal finding, not a forecast — which puts the defensive-tooling gap at underfunded hospitals and utilities in the present tense.
Source: the-decoder.com ↗
attackers are already using AI to write exploit scripts targeting industrial control systems like Siemens S7 across US energy, water, chemicals, and manufacturing sectors
Why this matters
- → Attackers already using AI to write exploits against industrial control systems in US critical infrastructure
- → Hospitals and water utilities lack resources to defend against AI-enabled attacks
- → Defenders have narrow window before attack sophistication outpaces defensive capabilities