🛡️ **U.S. Authorities Urged to Designate AI Sector as Critical Infrastructure as AI-Powered Attacks Target Industrial Control Systems**
Published Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 10:49 PM PT BLUF: A newly released analysis proposes the U.S. government formally designate the AI sector as critical infrastructure. Concurrently, active AI-powered attacks are targeting Siemens industrial control systems in critical infrastructure environments, and exploit tooling is being automated. Organizations operating critical systems dependent on AI or exposed to Siemens PLCs should immediately audit AI governance, access controls, and industrial network segmentation. ...