CISA sidelined as White House scrambles on AI cyber threats - Axios

Oh, marvellous. The agency literally created to protect America's critical infrastructure is being sent into the AI era with a pat on the head and a reduced budget. Former officials and industry leaders are wringing their hands, but the White House is too busy 'scrambling'—a word that suggests panic rather than planning. CISA's shrinking resources mean it's less equipped to help local governments and hospitals, who are exactly the soft targets AI hackers will feast on.

Meanwhile, AI-powered cyber attacks are getting smarter by the quarter, and Washington's response is to do what it does best: form a committee, issue a memo, and hope the private sector sorts it out. The agency's 'diminished role' is a euphemism for 'we've decided to wing it.' Because nothing says robust cybersecurity like defunding the people who actually know what a zero-day is while praying that Google's threat intelligence team shares their lunch.

The real joke is that everyone saw this coming. The warning signs were there for years, but Congress chose performative hearings over actual funding. Now the White House is 'scrambling', which is Washington-speak for 'we have no plan but we'll pretend we do until the next news cycle.' Raise a glass to the AI future—just make sure it's not connected to the grid.