The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) wants to deploy autonomous AI agents capable of finding and neutralizing cyberattacks on national networks in real time, marking Britain’s push toward a sovereign, machine-speed cyber defense system.
The blueprint, called Cyber Shield, was developed jointly with the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT).
“The objective of Cyber Shield is to build a national-scale, collaborative approach to agentic cyber defence, using frontier AI to identify, reduce and resolve our national cyber risk,” the NCSC said in a blog post.
The proposal comes as the NCSC warns that AI is already helping attackers perform activities such as vulnerabili...