Times of India | ‘India needs AI to fight AI as cyber threats grow
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India’s rapid digital transformation—encompassing Aadhaar, UPI, ONDC and massive citizen databases—has expanded the nation’s cyber‑attack surface, making traditional manual defences inadequate, said National Cyber Security Coordinator Navin Kumar Singh at the CyberComm 2026 event. He urged the adoption of artificial‑intelligence‑powered security systems, coining the phrase “AI to fight AI,” and called for stronger industry‑government collaboration and real‑time threat‑information sharing to boost collective resilience. Singh warned of a “quantum jump” in AI capabilities for both cyber‑offence and defence, noting that advanced open‑source models such as GPT‑5.5 could become widely available within six‑to‑nine months. With internet subscribers increasing three‑fold in a decade and per‑capita data use soaring nearly 400‑fold, India’s Digital Public Infrastructure model—combining interoperable public platforms with private innovation—is now being studied globally as a blueprint for secure digital economies.
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