| In the accelerated evolution of digital ecosystems, there is a demand for a new synthesis of Artificial Intelligence (AI), cybersecurity-by-design, and autonomous decision-making in diverse settings. This vision paper provides a consolidated view, formulated by six European initiatives, Vigilance, CyberAId, ENFORCE, Act4Food, CTIS4NIS, and 5G-TACTIC, that contribute jointly to the evolution of intelligent, cyber-resilient, and trustworthy next-generation systems. Employing common methodologies, prototypes, immense pilot deployments, and trials, the EU initiatives through the collective, present in this paper, a coherent roadmap to install these components into future large-scale digital infrastructures: automation driven by AI, proactive threat detection, zero-touch operational paradigm, and any type of trustworthy data flow. Also, the vision engulfs related topics like federated and collaborative AI, guarding all the cyber-physical continuum, secure and interoperable data spaces, and after that application-driven intelligence, forwards the range across the domains from critical infrastructures to the food systems guaranteeing a mechanism to bring what has been described to the physical world. The paper concludes by presenting a common architectural blueprint and starts highlighting open research issues and policy considerations that could build an environment where AI-driven cyber resilience intelligence would become a rudder of European digital autonomy and societal resilience in forthcoming decades. |
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