G7 Finance Leaders Announce Tabletop Exercises to Test Defenses Against AI-Powered Cyberattacks

The Group of Seven's top finance officials have agreed to conduct tabletop simulations designed to measure how quickly their institutions can detect, contain, and recover from cyberattacks powered by artificial intelligence. Japanese Finance Minister Satsuki Katayama announced the decision following a G7 meeting in Bangkok on October 15, noting that "the G7 finance deputies had been discussing the idea of doing tabletop exercises on frontier AI," which received ministerial approval.