Former CIA CTO Urges Building Secure AI

Former CIA CTO Bob Flores warned at Tel Aviv Cyberweek on January 28, 2026, that AI must be designed with security from the outset to avoid repeating the Internet's failures. He outlined threats including AI-driven malware, autonomous agents infiltrating institutions, data poisoning, supply-chain and hardware compromises, and future risks from quantum computing. Flores urged adoption of validation, governance frameworks, standards, and model/data hardening during development.