Witnesses urge pre‑deployment testing and stronger telecom cyber defenses after AI‑enabled incidents
Academic and industry witnesses recommended mandatory network security requirements, predeployment testing of advanced models, and staffing boosts for federal cyber agencies after citing recent AI‑enabled incidents and older breaches like Salt Typhoon.
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Asad Ramzanali, director of AI and technology policy at Vanderbilt's Policy Accelerator, and other witnesses told the committee that AI both increases cyber risk and offers defensive tools—so the federal government must act on two fronts: hardening critical infrastructure and requiring pre‑deployment testing of powerful models.
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