The Vienna Center for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation (VCDNP) cordially invites you to attend a seminar entitled “Outpacing the AI Cyber Threat,” to be held on Wednesday, 18 November 2026 from 15:00 to 16:00 Central European Time (CET). The event will be held in the VCDNP Conference Room and is open for both in-person and virtual participation.
Light refreshments will be served from 14:30.
AI is making cyberattacks faster, more sophisticated and increasingly autonomous, and attackers are adopting these capabilities quickly. How regulators approach AI in the nuclear sector will determine whether facilities can use the same tools to keep their cyber defences ahead of those threats, or are left defending at yesterday’s speed.
This event will highlight the key results from a newly published VCDNP expert report on this topic. The report draws on a two-day expert workshop held in June 2026, which brought together nuclear regulators and experts in cybersecurity, nuclear security and artificial intelligence to examine these challenges. Participants also identified key principles to guide regulators in deciding how, and when, to regulate AI in the nuclear sector.
Dr. Sarah Case Lackner, Emerging Technologies Programme Director at the VCDNP, the author of the newly published report, will engage in a conversation about its key results, the workshop, cybersecurity for nuclear security, regulation, and artificial intelligence. A Q&A discussion with the audience will follow.
Elena Sokova, VCDNP Executive Director, will open the event and moderate the Q&A.
Please register for in-person or virtual participation using the registration links below.
The VCDNP would like to thank Global Affairs Canada for its support of this event.
The opinions/views expressed by the speakers in the event do not necessarily reflect the opinions/views of the VCDNP.
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