{"id":213350,"date":"2026-05-13T14:16:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T18:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/13\/no-time-to-waste-in-prepping-governments-for-ai-cyber-threats-top-dem-lawmaker-says\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T14:40:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T18:40:09","slug":"no-time-to-waste-in-prepping-governments-for-ai-cyber-threats-top-dem-lawmaker-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/13\/no-time-to-waste-in-prepping-governments-for-ai-cyber-threats-top-dem-lawmaker-says\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018No time to waste\u2019 in prepping governments for AI cyber threats, top Dem lawmaker says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nextgov.com\/artificial-intelligence\/2026\/05\/no-time-waste-prepping-governments-ai-cyber-threats-top-dem-lawmaker-says\/413517\/?orefu003dng-homepage-river\">\u2018No time to waste\u2019 in prepping governments for AI cyber threats, top Dem lawmaker says<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nextgov.com\/artificial-intelligence\/2026\/05\/no-time-waste-prepping-governments-ai-cyber-threats-top-dem-lawmaker-says\/413517\/?orefu003dng-homepage-river\">https:\/\/www.nextgov.com\/artificial-intelligence\/2026\/05\/no-time-waste-prepping-governments-ai-cyber-threats-top-dem-lawmaker-says\/413517\/?orefu003dng-homepage-river<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-13 14:16:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.nextgov.com\">www.nextgov.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sen. Chuck Schumer urged the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to enhance its coordination efforts with state, local, tribal, and territorial governments to tackle artificial intelligence-driven cyber threats.<\/li>\n<li>Schumer expressed concern over AI systems&#8217; capability to identify cybersecurity vulnerabilities faster than humans and emphasized the need for preparedness against potential AI-driven hacking of critical infrastructure.<\/li>\n<li>He questioned DHS about its plans for coordination and collaboration with different levels of governments to assess risks, provide remediation solutions, and facilitate rapid vulnerability patching.<\/li>\n<li>Schumer criticized the federal government&#8217;s decision to pull funding for the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center (MS-ISAC), asserting it was detrimental, especially given AI&#8217;s impact on the cyber threat landscape.<\/li>\n<li>He requested DHS to present a plan for coordinating the national response to frontier AI-enabled hacking by July 1st and also asked for a nominee for the CISA leadership position.<\/li>\n<li>Schumer underscored the urgency in addressing AI-related cyber threats to protect vital systems and prevent potential disruptions, comparing the situation to a race against AI-enabled hackers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018No time to waste\u2019 in prepping governments for AI cyber threats, top Dem lawmaker says&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":213353,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.nextgov.com\/media\/img\/cd\/2026\/05\/13\/20260513_Schumer_Anna_Moneymaker-2\/open-graph.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-213350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213350"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213350"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":213354,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213350\/revisions\/213354"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}