Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan Chase, is reportedly pushing to expand a corporate coalition that spans key industries such as finance, information technology (IT), energy, and telecommunications to jointly respond to AI-driven cyberattacks and threats to critical infrastructure. As corporations accelerate AI adoption, AI risk management is also expanding beyond individual corporations into a joint response framework across critical infrastructure industries.
On the 5th (local time), Reuters reported, citing multiple sources familiar with the matter, that CEO Dimon is personally reaching out to CEOs at major U.S. banks, leading regional banks, and IT corporations to invite them to join the coalition.
The plan is being pursued by expanding and reorganizing the Alliance for Critical Infrastructure (ACI), which JPMorgan co-founded. According to the sources, since on the previous month, invitations to join the coalition have been extended to more than 40 corporations in critical infrastructure fields such as financial services, energy, water, electricity, telecommunications, aviation, and railroads. ACI is said to be arranging schedule calls this month to discuss cooperation measures with corporations that want to participate.
ACI is an organization co-founded by JPMorgan, Mastercard, and Berkshire Hathaway Energy. It has aimed to build cross-industry information-sharing and joint-response systems to enhance the resilience of national critical infrastructure against cyberattacks, physical threats, and geopolitical risks. This time, it is reorganizing to strengthen its AI risk response function. In particular, ACI's goal is to fully launch the new framework by the end of this year.
The coalition plans to establish joint standards on AI use, potential risks, and needed safeguards, and to discuss related issues with the Trump administration while exploring responses. Sources said the need for cross-industry information sharing has also grown after recent cyberattacks targeting water facilities in places including Minnesota.
In a statement, CEO Dimon said, "ACI has for years prioritized AI to bring together critical infrastructure corporations to cooperate," adding, "We are proud to support this important work." In a CNBC interview, he also said, "The government and industry will play roles advising each other."
As AI rapidly spreads across finance and critical infrastructure industries, regulators and the industry are increasingly worried that AI could intensify cyberattacks and create new vulnerabilities in the financial system and national critical infrastructure. In particular, there is a growing sense that strengthening security at the level of individual corporations alone is not enough. The U.S. government last month launched the Gold Eagle project, under which AI developers, critical infrastructure operators, and federal agencies share vulnerabilities found in high-performance AI models and coordinate responses, strengthening public-private cooperation.
Previously, on the previous month, CEO Dimon highlighted the need for access controls and safeguards for high-performance AI, citing risks that Anthropic's AI model "Mythos" could pose. At the time, he warned that offering high-performance AI without controls is "like handing a person a ballistic missile."