SandboxAQ CEO Warns at Davos of Converging GPS and AI Cyber Threats

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At the World Economic Forum in Davos, SandboxAQ CEO Jack Hidary warned that GPS jamming, GPS spoofing, and AI-driven cyberattacks are rapidly merging into a single threat surface for critical infrastructure, including aviation and other mission-critical systems. He argued that organizations can no longer treat navigation resilience and AI security as separate risk domains, and must instead build integrated defenses that address both signal disruption and advanced cyber exploitation.

To respond to this convergence, SandboxAQ is advancing two core platforms: AQNav, a navigation system that relies on the Earth’s magnetic field to provide robust positioning, navigation, and timing when GPS is degraded or unavailable, and AQtive Guard, a security suite that consolidates AI risk management and cryptographic posture oversight. AQNav, which has already undergone testing with the U.S. Air Force and multiple aviation firms, is attracting attention from Middle Eastern airlines after a series of reported GPS interference incidents in the region and high-profile jamming events affecting political flights in Europe. Hidary also highlighted the growing misuse of large language models by nation-state actors, referencing cases such as engineers inadvertently leaking proprietary data into public AI tools, and cited the World Economic Forum’s 2026 Global Risks Report, which ranks cyber insecurity among the top near-term threats and projects AI-related risks to rise sharply over the next decade. These trends position SandboxAQ’s navigation and cybersecurity offerings as directly aligned with escalating demand from governments and enterprises seeking resilience against both physical signal disruption and AI-enabled cyberattacks.