Artificial intelligence is becoming woven into the very fabric of the cloud, edge, and network systems that power modern life. As AI models grow more capable and more deeply integrated into critical infrastructure, a pressing question emerges: who is responsible for ensuring this infrastructure remains trustworthy, safe, and resilient?

On October 21, 2026, the Marconi Society will convene senior leaders from cloud, edge, and policy communities for a timely and essential conversation: “Trust, Safety, and Infrastructure-Aware AI: Building a Secure Internet for the Next Decade.” Moderated by AWS, this webinar arrives at a pivotal moment—one where the decisions made today about AI governance and infrastructure resilience will shape the safety and stability of digital systems for years to come.

Why Now?

AI is no longer confined to isolated applications; it is becoming inseparable from the infrastructure that underpins global connectivity, commerce, and communication. This shift brings extraordinary opportunity, but also extraordinary risk. New threat surfaces are emerging at the juncture of AI and critical infrastructure, and the traditional playbooks for security and resilience are being rapidly rewritten, or worse—fail.

The stakes extend far beyond model-level safeguards. Increasingly, the conversation must include how we govern, observe, and secure the infrastructure itself and systems that make AI possible at scale. Resilience demands more than technology; it requires people, institutions, incentives and governance. Without coordinated action across sectors, we risk building the future on foundations that are neither transparent nor resilient enough to withstand the challenges ahead.

The Marconi Society has prioritized this conversation as part of its 2026 thematic focus, sitting squarely at the intersection of three critical pillars: Trust & Safety, Infrastructure & Energy Transformation, and Internet Resilience. These aren’t abstract concerns; rather, they are practical, urgent challenges facing every organization and community that relies on digital infrastructure.

A Call for Collective Action

Perhaps the most important takeaway isn’t a single statistic or policy recommendation—it’s the recognition that no single organization, and no single discipline, can solve these challenges alone. Trust and safety at the infrastructure level requires shared standards, cross-sector collaboration, and a willingness to learn from those operating at the frontier of AI deployment, with particular attention to usable tools that others can learn from and apply.

As AI capabilities accelerate, so too does the urgency for industry and academic leaders to align around common frameworks for red-teaming, monitoring, incident response, and governance. Waiting for perfect consensus is not an option. Skills shortages, fatigue, regulatory misalignment, and institutional failure can take down systems as effectively as technical faults.

Join us on October 21 as we bring together the voices best positioned to answer one of the most consequential questions of our time: how do we build a secure, resilient internet in an AI-driven world?

The Marconi Society AI Institute is committed to fostering the cross-sector dialogue needed to ensure technology serves humanity safely and equitably. This webinar is part of our ongoing commitment to advancing conversations on Trust & Safety, Infrastructure & Energy Transformation, and Internet Resilience.

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