Ambassador Nate Fick
Appearances
To Catch a Thief: China’s Rise to Cyber Supremacy
Ep 9: The New Frontline
Is AI being used offensively? Yes, undoubtedly. I mean, I think it's intrinsic. We have to recognize that these technologies are always going to be used to generate advantage. But I'm even more excited, actually, about what AI can do on the defensive side.
To Catch a Thief: China’s Rise to Cyber Supremacy
Ep 9: The New Frontline
I think about the years that I spent running a company that was doing its best to build safe and secure software and investing an enormous amount of time and energy and money in quality assurance. And yet, still, when you're talking about millions and millions of lines of code, it was buggy stuff.
To Catch a Thief: China’s Rise to Cyber Supremacy
Ep 9: The New Frontline
And using AI to build better software, to create things that are more truly secure by design, I think is pretty exciting.
To Catch a Thief: China’s Rise to Cyber Supremacy
Ep 5: A Cyber Detente
like it or not, in the digital domain, we're kind of stuck with each other. One of the things that diplomacy can do is to make clear that we know what you're doing. We know what your intent is behind it. Here's the evidence. And here's why we believe it's outside the bounds of responsible state behavior.
To Catch a Thief: China’s Rise to Cyber Supremacy
Ep 5: A Cyber Detente
So, diplomacy, of course, also requires that people pick up the phone. You know, it takes two. And I think one of the challenges with the PRC, with China, in the last couple of years has been it hasn't always felt like we had a willing interlocutor.
To Catch a Thief: China’s Rise to Cyber Supremacy
Ep 5: A Cyber Detente
If you remember last year, there was a missile that detonated in Poland and it killed a Polish farmer. And shortly after that happened, there was speculation in real time that it was a Russian missile. Well, the phone rang at the State Department and it was the Russians.
To Catch a Thief: China’s Rise to Cyber Supremacy
Ep 5: A Cyber Detente
And the basic message was, we don't know what that was, but it wasn't us, which was a really important piece of information for NATO at that moment.