{"id":459145,"date":"2026-07-07T19:41:05","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T17:41:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2026\/07\/07\/lue-adotta-piano-dazione-per-i-rischi-ia-e-minacce-informatiche-virkunnen-dobbiamo-stare-al-passo\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T19:59:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T17:59:10","slug":"the-eu-adopts-an-action-plan-on-ai-risks-and-cyber-threats-virkunnen-we-must-keep-pace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2026\/07\/07\/the-eu-adopts-an-action-plan-on-ai-risks-and-cyber-threats-virkunnen-we-must-keep-pace\/","title":{"rendered":"The EU adopts an Action Plan on AI risks and cyber threats. Virkunnen: \u201cWe must keep pace\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brussels \u2013 \u201cIf the vulnerabilities of artificial intelligence are turned into weapons, they can endanger our infrastructure and our society\u201d; that is why \u201cthe Commission\u2019s response was immediate\u201d. This was <\/span>stated <\/a>by <\/a>the<\/span> Executive Vice-President responsible for technological sovereignty, Henna Virkkunen,<\/strong> after the European Commission today (7 July) adopted an Action Plan on the risks and opportunities of advanced artificial intelligence (AI) models for cybersecurity.<\/span> <\/p>\n

AI can be misused to identify vulnerabilities, automate attacks and increase the scale and speed of cyber incidents. This is why cybersecurity is imperative and <\/span>\u201cwe are committed to working with the entire AI and cybersecurity ecosystem: with Member States, AI providers, industry, and our international partners<\/strong><\/span>,\u201d Virkunnen reiterated. <\/span><\/p>\n

The plan sets out several areas of action. Firstly, the Commission aims to <\/span>strengthen its AI assessment capacity by 2027.  This means assessing <\/span> AI models to ensure<\/span> they are safe and accessible to European citizens <\/span>before they are placed on the market. On the issue of access to models, the Commission aims to collaborate with the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) to develop guidelines to support European public and private organisations operating in the sector. There are also plans to create a secure platform for testing AI for cybersecurity, aimed at addressing vulnerabilities in projects across the most critical sectors, including finance, energy, healthcare, transport, and public administration.<\/span><\/p>\n

As regards protection against cyber-attacks, the priority is to identify and resolve critical vulnerabilities arising from the misuse of AI models more quickly. On this point, Virkunnen emphasised the importance of European legislation, citing \u201cthe <\/span>NIS2, DORA, and the Cyber Resilience Act,” and the importance of reducing dependence on non-European solutions for security.<\/span> <\/p>\n

From now on, it will therefore be necessary to mobilise private capital and equity to fund the development of sovereign AI models with the aim of harnessing European talent and the so-called “<\/span>AI factories” (and future “gigafactories”) to build a European cybersecurity infrastructure. <\/span>Finally, to stimulate the development of the European market, the Commission will promote the \u201cEU Grand Challenge on AI for cybersecurity\u201d, a competition that will bring together companies, researchers, and organisations to develop artificial intelligence solutions for cybersecurity.<\/span> <\/p>\n

“Artificial intelligence is transforming the very meaning of cyber security, and we must keep pace,” concluded Virkunnen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The objectives are to promote the safe and responsible use of AI, to strengthen security, and to develop Europe\u2019s capabilities in artificial intelligence applied to cybersecurity<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7908,"featured_media":459120,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"format":"standard","override":[{"template":"1","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","show_comment_section":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","disable_ad":"0","subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25710],"tags":[25871,27243,34267],"class_list":["post-459145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-net-tech-en","tag-artificial-intelligence-act-en","tag-henna-virkunnen"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7908"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=459145"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":459146,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459145\/revisions\/459146"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/459120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}