Anne Neuberger outlines a national cyber defense plan for the superintelligence era

Anne Neuberger, a16z general partner and former US Deputy National Security Advisor for Cyber and Emerging Threats, proposes a public-private plan to defend critical infrastructure against AI-speed attacks, published in the Wall Street Journal and summarized by a16z. The plan targets five sectors (power, banking and payments, water, communications, hospitals) and the few hundred operators and shared vendors whose failure would cascade nationally, with goals including zero internet-exposed control systems, 72-hour manual-operation drills and critical vulnerabilities contained within a set time. It would run through a CEO council accountable to the White House's Super Intelligence Force, with sector ISACs delivering AI-enabled scanning, fixes and monthly scorecards, plus legal protections for information sharing and liability.