{"id":366116,"date":"2026-10-06T19:08:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T19:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/366116\/"},"modified":"2026-10-06T19:08:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T19:08:08","slug":"nyc-says-it-can-handle-ai-powered-cyberattacks-but-other-safeguards-are-still-catching-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/366116\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC says it can handle AI-powered cyberattacks, but other safeguards are still catching up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nyc.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">New York City<\/a> says it is prepared to defend its computer systems from AI-powered attacks. Keeping tabs on how its own workers are using the technology is another story.<\/p>\n<p>At a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amny.com\/news\/ai-giants-nyc-council-whistleblower-warnings\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">marathon City Council hearing Monday<\/a>, officials in the Mamdani administration acknowledged that the city cannot technically monitor employees\u2019 use of outside AI tools, is still staffing the office charged with overseeing algorithmic systems, and does not yet know how the technology could reshape its workforce.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"meta-box read-more-box\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amny.com\/politics\/nyc-ai-cyberattacks-safeguards\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\tSee the full article at amNY &#13;<br \/>\n\t\tNYC says it can handle AI-powered cyberattacks, but other safeguards are still catching up &#13;\n\t<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York City says it is prepared to defend its computer systems from AI-powered attacks. Keeping tabs on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":366117,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[3250,66,135621,9,24,55,54,56,135622,55356],"class_list":["post-366116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-city-coucil","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-ny","tag-oti","tag-sam-levine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=366116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366116\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/366117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}