In a Financial Times opinion piece published ahead of the Munich Security Conference, Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google and Alphabet, discussed the growing and evolving risks in cybersecurity, emphasizing how AI is rapidly changing both the tactics of attackers and the defenses needed to counter them. He argues that AI has the potential to reverse the long-standing asymmetry in cyber defense — where attackers need to succeed once, but defenders need to get it right every time.

Pichai's piece outlines three areas where public and private institutions need to work together to make AI-powered defense viable: regulation, AI skills training, and cross-sector partnerships, and endorses LetsData among the innovative players in the battle against malicious influence operations.