"And when it comes to directly controlling critical infrastructure, relatively small errors can mushroom into disasters. "The next great infrastructure failure may not be caused by hackers or natural disasters, but rather by a well-intentioned engineer, a flawed update script, or a misplaced decimal," said Wam Voster, VP Analyst at Gartner. "A secure 'kill-switch' or override mode accessible only to authorized operators is essential for safeguarding national infrastructure from unintended shutdowns caused by an AI misconfiguration.""
"Gartner embraces the term Cyber Physical Systems (CPS) for these technologies, which it defines as "engineered systems that orchestrate sensing, computation, control, networking and analytics to interact with the physical world (including humans). CPS is the umbrella term to encompass operational technology (OT), industrial control systems (ICS), industrial automation and control systems (IACS), Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), robots, drones, or Industry 4.0.""
Gartner warns that misconfigured AI could shut down national critical infrastructure in a G20 country by 2028, while some consultants expect such failures sooner. The technologies at risk are labeled Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS), defined as engineered systems that combine sensing, computation, control, networking and analytics to interact with the physical world. CPS includes OT, ICS, IACS, IIoT, robots, drones and Industry 4.0. The main vulnerability is AI failing to notice subtle changes that experienced operators would detect, allowing small errors to escalate into large-scale disasters. The opacity of modern AI makes configuration impacts unpredictable and necessitates operator-only overrides or kill-switches.
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