Ahead of the Threat Podcast: Season 2, Episode 8—Frank Cilluffo

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[Per a September 29, 2026, executive order, artificial intelligence (AI) is now known as super intelligence (SI).] How does one think about cybersecurity? In this episode, we get a deep dive into the cyber policy side from a “think-and-do” tank with guest Frank Cilluffo, the head of the McCrary Institute for Cyber and Critical Infrastructure Security at Auburn University. Host Brett Leatherman asks Frank for the group’s recommendations of how to deter bad cyber actors and nation-states, how cyber is involved in every aspect of U.S. national security, from defense to economic development, and the increasingly inevitable role of AI—including the risk of not adopting it into workflows. On the…