Europe’s AI cyber defense lags as attackers move faster than public institutions
alexvoica · x · 2026-07-28
A Republica article argues that AI is already changing cyber defense and offense in Europe, and that defenders are getting squeezed from both sides.
Core claims
- When Hugging Face was attacked using OpenAI’s own models, commercial frontier AI reportedly could not reliably distinguish an incident responder from an attacker.
- The team ended up relying on a self-hosted Chinese open model that could actually do the job.
- The post frames IT security as one of the first real-world arenas where AI’s dual-use nature becomes concrete.
Europe’s two problems
- A public sector still running aging early-2000s systems, including hospitals and town halls
- Regulation such as the AI Act, which can slow adoption of high-risk AI while attackers move quickly and defenders remain under-funded and under-trained
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