"Virginia Tech Opens World’s First Fully Automated AI and Cyberbiosecurity Water Lab"
The Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Cyber for Water and Agriculture (ACWA) lab at Virginia Tech is the world's first to combine cyberbiosecurity and AI automation to research water security. The multidisciplinary lab, led by a team of AI experts, seeks to protect the world's water resources from cyberattacks such as the one faced by a water treatment facility in Oldsmar, Florida, in 2021. During the attack, a sensor that measures the amount of sodium hydroxide in the water was compromised. The hacker tried to change the sodium hydroxide levels in the water supply, switching the setting from 100 parts per million to 11,100 parts per million. Sodium hydroxide at this level causes severe damage to any human tissue it comes into contact with and, in some cases, can be fatal. This article continues to discuss the purpose and goals of the ACWA lab at Virginia Tech.
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