Ericsson CEO Andres Vicente highlights the urgent need for robust technology alignment and ecosystem collaboration to secure Artificial Intelligence infrastructure, ensuring innovation while mitigating risks in an increasingly interconnected digital world.
Stressing that the world cannot afford to forgo the productivity and innovation AI offers, Andres Vicente, CEO of Ericsson Southeast Asia, Oceania & India on Wednesday said the answer lies in boosting technology alignment and ecosystems, especially on security.
Ericsson is working with cloud providers, software developers and network manufacturers under the aegis of Trusted Tech Alliance to build a common understanding of AI-era security, he told reporters.
Describing the modern technology landscape as a stack of multiple layers working in unison, Vicente said cloud platforms, AI models, networks, devices and the applications running on them are all interconnected today.
AI, he said, will make these connections faster and more intelligent. That deeper integration, he argued, makes security a shared concern.
"Artificial intelligence is going to make connection faster and more intelligible, right? So there must be some type of consensus regarding how security needs to be implemented from the full technical stand," he told reporters during a company briefing at the India Mobile Congress (IMC).
The company, by definition, tries to apply the maximum level of security to networks because these networks form the backbone of connecting other strategic industries.
"So we do believe that in a world where artificial intelligence has already been created, you cannot give up to this amount of productivity and innovation. So what we're trying to do is to boost the technology alignment and ecosystem working together in this area," he said.
Vicente's comments underline a growing view among telecom and technology leaders that as AI becomes embedded across infrastructure, security can no longer be handled in silos or after-thought.
With communications networks at the heart of national and industrial connectivity, experts say collective standards and cooperation across cloud, software and hardware providers will be key to ensuring that AI's benefits are realised, while harms are mitigated.